Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi,
Does anyone else use Sidplay (Mac) in conjunction with their Sidstation?
I'm having some difficulty getting them to work together.  Sidplay freezes
when I select ASID mode in the prefs on my G4 Yikes running 8.6.
On my Powerbook, also running 8.6, it slows way down, but once you get a
song playing it's fine.  Sounds weird, I know.  Any ideas???
Looking for tips or observations...

Thanks,
Peter Ehrlich

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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Ehrlich wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anyone else use Sidplay (Mac) in conjunction with their Sidstation?
> I'm having some difficulty getting them to work together.  Sidplay freezes
> when I select ASID mode in the prefs on my G4 Yikes running 8.6.
> On my Powerbook, also running 8.6, it slows way down, but once you get a
> song playing it's fine.  Sounds weird, I know.  Any ideas???
> Looking for tips or observations...
> 
Which version of OMS do you have installed?
I can only guarantee that it will work if the SIDStation is the only MIDI
device connected. It might be bad if there is a long chains of MIDI
devices.

Cheers,
Andreas

on 8/4/00 1:55 AM, Andreas Varga at sid@... wrote:

> Which version of OMS do you have installed?
> I can only guarantee that it will work if the SIDStation is the only MIDI
> device connected. It might be bad if there is a long chains of MIDI
> devices.
> 
hi,
I just sent you an email directly, before I read this.  :)
Right now I'm running 8.6 on a G4 Yikes with an old MOTU Midi Time Piece.
The Sidstation is on its own port, all by itself.  There is a bunch of other
stuff hooked up but they are on individual ports.  Not sure if that could be
a problem.
I have OMS 2.3.8 running.
I tried it with Freemidi too in emulation.

One time I tried switching to ASID mode with a song already playing, and it
was sending something to the Sidstation.  It was pretty garbled though, and
I couldn't get out of the prefs dialog.

I'm trying to think of other useful specs...

If you think of anything let me know.  Thanks!



Peter Ehrlich

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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Ehrlich wrote:

> I just sent you an email directly, before I read this.  :)
> Right now I'm running 8.6 on a G4 Yikes with an old MOTU Midi Time Piece.
> The Sidstation is on its own port, all by itself.  There is a bunch of other
> stuff hooked up but they are on individual ports.  Not sure if that could be
> a problem.

I guess the porblem is your MIDI interface. This is an USB thing? 
Or did you add a serial port to the G4?

Cheers,
Andreas

on 8/4/00 6:36 AM, Andreas Varga at sid@... wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Ehrlich wrote:
> 
>> I just sent you an email directly, before I read this.  :)
>> Right now I'm running 8.6 on a G4 Yikes with an old MOTU Midi Time Piece.
>> The Sidstation is on its own port, all by itself.  There is a bunch of other
>> stuff hooked up but they are on individual ports.  Not sure if that could be
>> a problem.
> 
> I guess the porblem is your MIDI interface. This is an USB thing?
> Or did you add a serial port to the G4?
> 
I added a gport, so it's running through the serial port.  For some reason,
I don't think it's the midi interface or setup.  The program behaves this
way whether I have midi devices hooked up or not.  Seems like the program
would just time out if it couldn't find the Sidstation???
Another thing I have to do is run OMS and an extremely minimal set of
extensions and see what happens.
I have other midi apps going with and without OMS...not sure how that
relates to the ASID mode.

hmmm...

Thanks for the assistance,
Peter Ehrlich

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on 8/4/00 6:36 AM, Andreas Varga at sid@... wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Ehrlich wrote:
> 
>> I just sent you an email directly, before I read this.  :)
>> Right now I'm running 8.6 on a G4 Yikes with an old MOTU Midi Time Piece.
>> The Sidstation is on its own port, all by itself.  There is a bunch of other
>> stuff hooked up but they are on individual ports.  Not sure if that could be
>> a problem.
> 
> I guess the porblem is your MIDI interface. This is an USB thing?
> Or did you add a serial port to the G4?
> 
Oh, one more thing...
What setup(s) have you tested Sidplay with?
Maybe I can duplicate one of those and see if I can get it going.?

Hope this isn't too OT for this list!

Peter Ehrlich

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So I checked out version 3.3 for Mac and it's pretty cool.  Does 
anynone know if it'll support Sidstation or is my only hope Acid or 
Hardsid PCI?