Re: Attn: Chris Boring (Previously - Re: Music Mac)

[Chris Boring]

>From: Sionnach Aisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
>I was thinking of using my 3400 for music as well.
>
>A friend of mine about a year ago gave me a copy of
>Opcode's (now obsolete) Music Shop (a midi program for
>Mac in case you aren't familiar with it.) I was
>thinking of picking up a MidiMan as well...  My
>problem is that I play Guitar, not keyboard... and
>neither of my guitars is setup with Midi ports as
>keyboards standardly come with.
>
>I'm assuming I can run some sort of synth or something
>between the Guitar and the Midibox to get the midi
>output that I need.  Do you have any experience with
>this and could you recommend any hardware?
>
Well, it's a pretty expensive proposition:  you need either a guitar with 
built in MIDI (which is old and hard to find) or you need to mount an audio 
pickup on the guitar you have, and connect it to a MIDI capable guitar 
synth.  Either way, you're looking at a several hundred dollar outlay.  I 
rather like Roland GR series of guitar synths, take a look on Ebay.

I'm not really familiar with musicshop, so I couldn't really say what I 
think of it.  But I'll give my heartfelt recommendation to Propellerheads 
REason, I do most of my tracks on it, and a minimal track will run fine on 
your 3400.

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Attn: Chris Boring (Previously - Re: Music Mac)

[Sionnach Aisling]

I was thinking of using my 3400 for music as well.

A friend of mine about a year ago gave me a copy of
Opcode's (now obsolete) Music Shop (a midi program for
Mac in case you aren't familiar with it.) I was
thinking of picking up a MidiMan as well...  My
problem is that I play Guitar, not keyboard... and
neither of my guitars is setup with Midi ports as
keyboards standardly come with.

I'm assuming I can run some sort of synth or something
between the Guitar and the Midibox to get the midi
output that I need.  Do you have any experience with
this and could you recommend any hardware?

Just curious.

Cheers,
Sionnach

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Re: Music Mac

[Cameron Kaiser]

> MOTU, MIDIman and (formerly) Opcode mkae MIDI interfaces.

I was lucky and found Guitar Center blowing out Mini Macmans for $20/pop (a
great price) although they're probably even lower now, especially used. It
plugs into the printer port. The harder part was getting OMS to work. :-/

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Re: Music Mac

[Chris Boring]

What you need is some kind of MIDI interface.  A MIDI midi interface plugs
into your modem/printer port and will give you MIDI input/output.  You will
also need some kind of MIDI sequencing software.

MOTU, MIDIman and (formerly) Opcode mkae MIDI interfaces.

MOTU, Steinberg and EMagic make MIDI sequencing software.  Hope this helps.
Entire books could (and have) been written on this topic.  I use my 3400 for
music, so it's one i'm well familiar with.  Good luck!

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- Original Message -
From: "MMB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi:
>
> I am staying in a house where is an  electronic keyboard which has MIDI
> ports.
>
> Is there any way I can connect this to my PB3400c?
>
> What does the MacOS use instead of MIDI?
>
> Is there a FAQ somewhere or a site which will tell me all?
>
> [I am sure that those questions are very ignorant but I have never
> enountered this in ten years of Mac word processing :-)]

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Music Mac

[MMB]

Hi:

I am staying in a house where is an  electronic keyboard which has MIDI
ports. 

Is there any way I can connect this to my PB3400c?

What does the MacOS use instead of MIDI?

Is there a FAQ somewhere or a site which will tell me all?

[I am sure that those questions are very ignorant but I have never
enountered this in ten years of Mac word processing :-)]


Maria
Mallacoota
Australia

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