EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 64, Issue 14 This issue's topics: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet (5 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: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:25:19 -0500 From: Jonathan Bauer Subject: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet I understand that neither Opcode MIDI system nor the Apple MIDI manager will operate properly on an Appletalk network (i.e. when Appletalk is enabled). Does anyone know, or have any experience, to indicate whether or not I have been correctly informed? Is this a theoretical matter or does Appletalk really interfere with MIDI? If Appletalk and MIDI manager/OMS will not work together, what about an ethernet network? Incidentally, this is not a complex network, in my case. Just a PowerMac 7100 and a IIfx. Thanks in advance. If I get direct replies via email, I will summarize back to the list. /Jonathan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 22:11:20 -0700 From: Clayton Charles Peddy Subject: Re: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet Yup. AppleTalk and MIDI do not work well together. I have not been able to do it. Anyone else? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 08:46:45 BST From: Stephen Deutsch Subject: Re: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet We find that we need a separate computer if we wish the ethernet system to be always active. Using Studio 5, we cannot have the music system and com- munications network active simultaneously. > -- Prof Stephen Deutsch # # BOURNEMOUTH The Digital Music Studio # UNIVERSITY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- JANET: sdeutsch@uk.ac.bournemouth Talbot Campus World: sdeutsch@bournemouth.ac.uk Fern Barrow, Poole Voice: +44 (202) 595102 Fax: 595530 Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:38:19 -0500 From: Jonathan Bauer Subject: Re: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet >We find that we need a separate computer if we wish the ethernet system to >be always active. Using Studio 5, we cannot have the music system and com- >munications network active simultaneously. Which raises the obvious next question ... why? Is there a work around? ---------------------------------- Jonathan Bauer 440 W. 41st St. #202 N.Y. N.Y. 10036 +1 212-239-5158 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:28:22 BST From: Stephen Deutsch Subject: Re: MIDI & Appletalk/ethernet > > > Which raises the obvious next question ... why? Is there a work around? I'm no expert, but I believe that this is because the computer cannot share the same port between two separate functions. The Mac is both physically and archetecturally incapable of dividing these functions. But any message which cannot be accessed will simply be saved up while you are using the OMS, so what's the problem? The OMS will prompt you to turn off (and on again) the Appletalk system. Either that, or an inexpensive LCII second hand (or anything else with 4MB RAM will do all of your cyberspace work while you compose happily on your main machine. (P.S. what does **is there a work around* mean?) -- Prof Stephen Deutsch # # BOURNEMOUTH The Digital Music Studio # UNIVERSITY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- JANET: sdeutsch@uk.ac.bournemouth Talbot Campus World: sdeutsch@bournemouth.ac.uk Fern Barrow, Poole Voice: +44 (202) 595102 Fax: 595530 Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************