I guess they do make them. Here appears to be one:
http://messe.harmony-central.com/Musikmesse04/Content/TerraTec/PR/MIDI-Hubble.html
Since my PCI slots are full, it looks like I won't be able to use the
M-Audio, but glad there's the USB option which I hope works with a cpu
upgraded Mac like mine (1ghz G4). Just wondering if anyone has
succesfully done it. Sounds like you have using the M-Audio.
If the modem port is serial, and if my external modem is serial, I guess
I am using the serial port in Panther just fine, even for faxing. In
Jaguar, it recognized it out of the box. For Panther, I saw a how-to on
the web and it was very simple, you just got the proper printer
definition file in the right directory and mapped the modem settings to
it, something like that, if anyone wants to know I can look it up for
them when I get home. The same trick works in Tiger on that old beige
box. The printing doesn't work with my old Personal LaserWriter because
it's localtalk and not serial. But I understand if you have an old
serial laser printer, you can use the serial port to print to it if you
use CUPS--at least for some models.
Can't believe how old it is. I was able to make a 1 hour movie of our
daughter's first year. I even have an old superdrive connected to it
and it burned the dvd just fine. Having lots of harddrive space and
even multiple drives, which I do, helps greatly I'm sure, as well as my
cpu upgrade. Wonder if there's a PC from 1997 that, upgraded, could
have performed as beautifully at this task as this old mac did.
My friends, both with newer PC's marvel at my "dinosaur". It's going
to have very little company I'm sure because the cost of upgrading the
processor would make most of us decide to just get a newer Mac with a
faster bus. I only got the processor because a friend sold it to me
cheap after he gave up on his old mac.
By the way, just to ramble on, is it possible that there could ever be a
usb2.0 to firewire adapter, so that you could use usb 2.0 through your
firewire port? I'm sure I just exposed my vast ignorance with this
question. And is anyone out there succesfully using USB 2.0 on an
unsupported Mac via PCI?
-Felix
insightinmind wrote:
You need a USB MIDI converter, pretty much... there's no serial port
support in OS X.
Let me know if such a device exists ... I believe someone told me once
that USB signals were too different from serial signals, and such a
box wasn't feasible.
That's why I tried the M-Audio 2496 PCI controller, going the PCI bus
route, and steering clear of the serial port bus ...
I would investigate other controllers for audio on a PCI Mac ...
M-Audio doesn't offer support, and I think their drivers aren't yet up
to snuff ... at least I have trouble on my legacy mac, which they come
out and state they don't support - and they don't respond to inquiries.
Perhaps the Tiger drivers would work on a legacy Mac whereas Panther
level ones are at best flaky.
Maybe hit and miss ... but you'd have a shot at MIDI and good audio
I/O with the M-Audio 2496.
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