Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/28/09 1:07 PM, John Niven of sense...@yahoo.com sent --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote: Atari 1040ST - yumm! I remember seeing one of them handling Master-Tracks Pro (I think that was it) which was available only for Atari and Mac. Yes my first

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-30 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the responses. My G4 (DA) also had some sleep issues re: the M-Audio 2496, but I attributed that to the upgraded processor (1.5GHz) that was also part of the mix. My fix was to move up to a 1.6GHz G5. I just changed

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-28 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote: Atari 1040ST - yumm! I remember seeing one of them handling Master-Tracks Pro (I think that was it) which was available only for Atari and Mac. Yes my first real computer was a 1040STe. It had built in midi ports. At the time I

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 28, 2009, at 1:07 PM, John Niven wrote: --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote: Like Bill, my home unit has an M-Audio 2496 (so I can run an M-Powered version of ProTools). My Xserve G4 won't sleep with it in. Do you have the same problem? Same issue here

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread John Niven
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Geoff Black of bla...@telkomsa.net For what its worth, PreSonus and M-Audio are your best bets for a small FW interface, Thanks Geoff and Dana. There was some confusion. My basic problem is that my

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Mike
Hi John, Could you let us know how you get on with that interface? I've been looking at them on and off for a while but haven't made a decision on anything yet Cheers Mike On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:06, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sat, 10/24/09, Dana Collins

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:06 AM, John Niven wrote: PS I'm surprised that there are not more music makers on this list. Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but its in a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... and really just started to work after replacing my mobo

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but its in a  Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... Actually This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. I do have the same PCI card (got cheaply from local

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:13 AM, John Niven wrote: --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:. In either case I guess I made the right decision to go with a firewire interface. It will either work ok with my PB now or a new one latter. I will report back latter.

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/27/09 11:13 AM, John Niven of sense...@yahoo.com sent --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but its in a  Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... Actually This is the kind of feedback I was

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Lawrence David Eden
My G4 has USB 1 and I added a USB 2.0 card in one of the PCI slots. When the G4 is sleeping with a device (iPod) connected, the OS thinks that the device has been improperly removedeven though the device is still connected to the port. So my question is this: what devices benefit most

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Paul Kemner
Keyboard and mouse are probably the slowest. A printer is also pretty slow, but a faster transfer will speed things up if it has a memory buffer and you're printing multi-page documents and/or graphics. Midi would be faster. If you've got a usb drive you will want data transfers as fast as

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Gerome
-Original Message- From: Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net Sent: Oct 24, 2009 7:52 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Question about USB ports? My G4 has USB 1 and I added a USB 2.0 card in one of the PCI slots. When the G4 is sleeping with a device (iPod) connected

Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread John Niven
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Paul Kemner zkem...@gmail.com wrote: Midi would be faster. This is a timely reply, Paul. I was just going to ask a question. I'm an Ableton Live user. My studio setup is XP PC based because it was available, and I needed something that would take the 5V PCI interface

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Geoff Black
Pre Sonus make a good firewire interface for midi. Firewire 400 and SPDIF plus live instrument inputs - mixer - with 48v mic input booster. I use it on CME keyboard - works on G4 MDD and Tiger - also runs on G5 quad. Rgds Geoff b On 24 Oct 2009, at 5:15 PM, John Niven wrote: --- On Sat,

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Geoff Black of bla...@telkomsa.net sent Pre Sonus make a good firewire interface for midi. Firewire 400 and SPDIF plus live instrument inputs - mixer - with 48v mic input booster. I use it on CME keyboard - works on G4 MDD and Tiger - also runs on G5 quad. Rgds

Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with 3 USB ports on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4 USB Bus and 1 USB High-speed Bus? equalling 5 usb busses all together? and I thought ALL of the 3 that I do have were

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with 3 USB ports on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4 USB Bus and 1 USB High-speed Bus? equalling 5 usb busses all together?

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jason Brown wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with 3 USB ports on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4 USB Bus and 1 USB

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
Jason, please keep in mind that system profiler only sees those USB ports available to it. Thus, if the keyboard is NOT plugged in, you will not see those ports. So, back to the drawing table. Jeff Ahhh, that is too true. I apologize for misinformation then. Jason

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Clark Martin
Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jason Brown wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with 3 USB ports on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bob Whiton
At 9:11 AM -0700 10/23/09, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with 3 USB ports on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4 USB Bus and 1 USB High-speed Bus? equalling 5 usb busses all together? and I

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Gerome
-Original Message- From: Jason Brown jason_br...@charter.net Sent: Oct 23, 2009 2:35 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Question about USB ports? Jason, please keep in mind that system profiler only sees those USB ports available to it. Thus, if the keyboard is NOT plugged in, you

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Clark Martin wrote: There is a USB diagnostic tool, part of XCode, that is more detailed and technical but less confusing once you get past the details. IIRC when I looked with that it was clear, but it's been a while since I did that and I can't recall

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe its called USB Prober.app. Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk and there was no USB Prober.app there? ideas? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe its called USB Prober.app. Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk and there was no USB Prober.app there? ideas? When you install the Developer

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe its called USB Prober.app. Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk and there was no USB

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe its called USB Prober.app. Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: When you install the Developer tools, it's in the /Developer/ Application/Utilities folder. Just as an FYI ... After installing XcodeTools.mpkg today, I see its 2.41GB in size. You can reduce this remarkably by doing a custom install.