Mac OS 9 Lives
Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Audio & MIDI Hardware => Topic started by: Dave 23 on September 04, 2018, 05:29:11 AM
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Mac mini 1.42 running modded OS 9.2.2, Logic 6.4.1- all working great.
Motu Fastlane is not detected by OMS though- auto setup only contains Quicktime music, Iac Driver and Studio Patches pgm chg
FreeMidi 1.48 is installed (includes Fastlane driver).
Can anyone walk me through the FM/OMS installation process? ...(and how to enable in LAP 6.4.1...I was pretty sketchy on this back in 2002- even more so now!)
In the past I had success on an eMac running 9.2.2 native (Fastlane driver/icon showed up in OMS setup)...but can't remember how I did it..... :o
Btw, my needs are quite minimal- I just want to slave the Mini running Rebirth to an OSX machine running Logic... is the Fastlane an ok choice or should I be looking at something more "professional" to ensure best possible timing?
thanks for any help/ insights...
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normally you only have to run the installer and reboot.
if there is something wrong with out OMS 238, the motu installer would complain.
in case you did a "manual" installation you might become confused with the motu OMS driver beeing called something like "motu usb" ... and put it in /extensions instead of the OMS folder?
according to the manual, it is only one file for each of the jobs: one OMS driver, one FM driver, one USB driver.
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I think you could be right about "motu usb".... I managed to copy the relevant extensions from the eMac and it all suddenly worked.
It's a long time since I last looked at Os9 !
..also I'm in uncharted territory with a modded os on a mac mini, so I'm not sure what's a glitch in the Matrix and what's not at the moment... :o
Thanks for your help.
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everything should operate "normal" except the built-in audio hardware.
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I haven't used FreeMIDI, but whenever I have made any significant changes to my configuration I remind myself to run the OMS Setup application so that it knows what drivers/ports I want it to use. Sometimes this has puzzled me when I forget which Mac is set up for what gear.