EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 55, Issue 04 This issue's topics: Help with Apple Midi Manager (9 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:02:57 -0500 From: Kirk Corey Subject: Help with Apple Midi Manager Please pardon the interruption in the "which musical culture/sampled piano gizmo is better" threads. I have a (hopefully!) simpler question. Does anyone have any documentation concerning the setup of Apple Midi Manager? We got our copy bundled with some other software, sans documentation. Now, the folks at Coda tell us that Finale 3.0 won't work properly without AMM, and I have a very anxious colleague trying to get results. Is there anyplace reachable by ftp that can explain Apple Midi Manager? Email replies are fine. Thanks in advance. Kirk P.S. Anyone looking to blow off steam in ways other than EMUSIC flame wars is cordially invited to our university to help with water bailing and sandbagging. Also, mosquito control. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr. Kirk Corey [insert Electronic Systems Administrator kirk-corey@uiowa.edu disclaimer School of Music here] The University of Iowa "Msdos? MSDOS? I've seen CALCULATORS with a better operating system!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 10:07:51 -0500 From: Kirk Corey Subject: Help with Apple Midi Manager *Apologies if this is a repeat post. Some automated agent of chaos told me the mail didn't go through. If you are reading this, please, send me a signal so that I don't repost _again_.* Please pardon the interruption in the "which musical culture/sampled piano gizmo is better" threads. I have a (hopefully!) simpler question. Does anyone have any documentation concerning the setup of Apple Midi Manager? We got our copy bundled with some other software, sans documentation. Now, the folks at Coda tell us that Finale 3.0 won't work properly without AMM, and I have a very anxious colleague trying to get results. Is there anyplace reachable by ftp that can explain Apple Midi Manager? An explanation beyond "just drop it in the system folder" is what I need. Email replies are fine. Thanks in advance. Kirk P.S. Anyone looking to blow off steam in ways other than EMUSIC flame wars is cordially invited to our university to help with water bailing and sandbagging. Also, mosquito control. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr. Kirk Corey [insert Electronic Systems Administrator kirk-corey@uiowa.edu disclaimer School of Music here] The University of Iowa "Msdos? MSDOS? I've seen CALCULATORS with a better operating system!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:13:44 EDT From: JOHN ALBERT PINION Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager Kirk, Did you not get the help file also, which I think explains you put MidiManager in the system folder, and Apple Midi Driver in the extensions folder, and I think maybe patch bay in the apple menu folder. As an asside, I have all this set up, and most midi apps can take advantage of it, but I don't generally use AMM if I don't need to (I use the internal midi drivers) because it s l o w s d o w n the pull down menus and other performance. Does anyone know why this happens? Thanks, /sig ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:29:51 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager >Kirk, >Did you not get the help file also, which I think explains you put MidiManager >in the system folder, and Apple Midi Driver in the extensions folder, and >I think maybe patch bay in the apple menu folder. Yes. Please note that you should use the PatchBay *application*, not the desk accessory. I had no success with MIDI Manager until I did so. In regard to using internal MIDI drivers vs. MIDI Manager: you will find this breaks - badly - on the PowerBook 100. I used a 512K for a while with internal drivers in several different applications, none of which worked on the PB100. Switching to the MIDI Manager worked, but there are very few public domain applications which use it. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:38:28 -0700 From: Michael O'Hara Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager There is a public domain application called "dino switch" that can make older apps work on some newer machines. Reccommended. I can post it if desired. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:59:09 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager >There is a public domain application called "dino switch" that can make >older apps work on some newer machines. Reccommended. > >I can post it if desired. Better yet, send it to me and I'll put it up on the castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov ftp site. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:04:20 EDT From: JOHN ALBERT PINION Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager Yea, I for one would like a posting of this "dino switch" application. Thanks, John Pinion Also, surely someone knows what the deal is on performance slowdown when using Midi-Manager? I would like to use it so as to patch one application to another, but as it stands it's just too slow. Does my 68030 Classic II just not have enough power, or what? Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:24:33 -0700 From: Michael O'Hara Subject: Re: Help with Apple Midi Manager I will make the application available at the castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov ftp site. (via Joe M - who offered to post it.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 13:58:51 -0500 From: Kirk Corey Subject: Re: Apple Midi Manager Dear y'all, Thanks much for your help. After finding a new copy of Apple Midi Manager, and, through trial and error, check all permutations of where to put the various files, it's finally working. Glad to know this was of interest to someone besides me. If anyone knows of documentation/troubleshooting tips or anything else available online, I'd be happy to know about that, too. I've been assured by some that the application is "flaky", and it would be wonderful to have a little more info around if further problems arise. Thanks again, Kirk -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr. Kirk Corey [insert Electronic Systems Administrator kirk-corey@uiowa.edu disclaimer School of Music here] The University of Iowa "Msdos? MSDOS? I've seen CALCULATORS with a better operating system!" ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************