Eric Dannewitz / 2005/07/29 / 06:46 PM wrote:

>Its an Audio Unit. Go look it up on Apple.com. It's not the same thing 
>as MIDI.

Well, Finale sends MIDI to Vi (virtual instrument), which format can be
AU, VST, MAS, RTAS, etc, etc.  You seems to be mixing two different
protocols.  MIDI is MIDI.  Finale HP uses CC1 MIDI message when GPO is
selected, while it is not a standard (why can't it be the standard CC11
or even CC7?!  I feel monopoly).

And what David was saying about XP optical drive issues is in fact
true.  Mac supports peripherals at the BIOS level, while PC doesn't. 
Mac also used to have a problem with 3rd party after-market peripherals
before the WorldROM machines (Tuppoer G3) but not anymore :-)

Back to the topic,
I am pretty pissed with Coda sleeping with NI.  After installing
FinMac2006, it is clear to me they intentionally embedded the code to
reject anything but NI shell.  a) You won't be able to use any AU Vi
other than NI, and b) Selecting NI/GPO will disable link to CoreMIDI. 
This is very intentional to my eye.  They had to embed this code to do this.

See, Fin2006 is still connecting to CoreMIDI since you still need MIDI
input from CoreMIDI device, but output to CoreMIDI is disabled to
prohibit you to use anything but NI/GPO.  If they took, as they claim,
the AU API, which should be pretty straight forward after Panther, then
we would have access to _any_ CoreMIDI object, including _any_ AU
instance because that's how OSX is designed for.

I think it is safe to say this is a big conspiracy :-)

-- 

- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>


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