Hello,
Please bear with me this a long post - the gist of it is this:
Is there any real advantage in running OS9 natively vs. virtualised on a PPC with Tiger for the sole purposes of:
Running Sounddiver, Sample editing and SMDI transfer (using Peak)?
There is also a program called FSEQ, an editor programme made by Yamaha for one of their late 90's synths called FS1R
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar99/articles/yamahafs1r.htm which I would like to use if possible.
The reason I am asking is:
I have a 7300/G3 available to do the job but it has two drawbacks: It is long in the tooth, noisy as hell and not easily integrateable with modern day peripherals, as I need to have long (approx 10m) ABD and Serial cable runs.
I could try and pimp it out with an Aztec Monster to get rid of all the noisy SCSI drives, and a PCI USB/Firewire card to be able to use cheap, off the shelf USB extensions for the keyboard and mouse/trackball. Sounddiver wouldn't be pretty at 1024x768 but it would probably work.
The other option would be to buy a (pre PCI-x) G5 dual for which I have an old ATTO SCSI card already and could also get the "Stealth" serial port.
On paper the G5 strikes me as the more practical solution: Tiger should be fine with the ATTO card and I can run a newer version of Peak for SMDI and editing. Networking and storage would be more convenient and I would have USB 2.0.
But what about classic progerammes that need OMS? Would the stealth port be accessible by OMS and useable in Classic? How about SCSI? Could Recycle, Alchemy, etc. use that from within classic? The Yamaha editor needs a MIDI interface on a Serial Port. Does the Stealth Port work in Classic?
I am really scratching my head here and any advice is most welcome.