[maintitle]

Hello all. Anyone out there using Tiger's built-in Midi over Lan feature? I have a dual G5 coming and am considering switching to midi-over-lan to connect my G5 (running Logic 7.1) to 4 PC's running Gigastudio and EWQLSO. I looks like I have to buy MOL software for the PCs, but the sheet on Tiger says it's now built into the OS. Just wondering if it's really working, and if anyone is using it? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Dave

[Daedalus]

I haven't heard anything about compatibility with Midi Over Lan for PC. Where did you hear this?

That would be very cool for us but I doubt Apple would develop something that would allow someone to buy PC's as their samplers.

[Croftish]

I use a G5 running Panther and DP with Midi Over Lan to connect to a PC running Gigastudio. Works a treat. Particularly with Remote Desktop ( you can run everything from the Mac and it's mouse/keyboard)
It only costs a few bucks for MOL on both machines.
Well worth it IMHO.

This post has been edited by Croftish: 28 July 2005 - 06:10 AM

[mrbriskers]

Anyone with an Apple computer that has Mac OSX Tiger has MIDI over internet (broadband) or lan built in. Just open up the Core Midi in the Utilities folder & double click on the MIDI Network. keyboard -> MIDI out -> mac -> DSL connection -> (backbone) -> DSL connection -> mac -> MIDI in -> keyboard (soundbank). Simply put in the ip address you want to connect to in the MIDI Network menu. Set it up to send to the network or recieve from the connnection, or both. It takes less than a minute to set up & it's already in your operating system for free! I do (midi over broadband ) live playing & jamming from home over the internet to another mac computer that's plugged into another keyboard (at the far end) all the time. Thousands of people do this all the time from gigging to, session work live, to real time collaborating on writing songs. How it works is as your talking to the person your collaborating with from your home "POTS" landline non-cordless phone to thier landline non-cordless (because a landline phone which has less latency than cell phone call & non-cordless has less latency then a cordless phone which of course you want the lowest latency on your voice call) so you can converse & hear each other talk, sing, or band/musicians play while you are connected from your Mac over broadband DSL connection through the backbone to their broadband DSL connection to thier Mac on the far end doing the broadband over MIDI while the far end hears you play MIDI live. You can also select it to be duplex while your sending them MIDI your also receiving MIDI from the far end as well. Since you can do all this of course it can easily be done over your local Lan network or from one computer through the router to another computer. It's free to Mac users with Tiger OSX.

[central rush]

that's pretty major mrbriskers. thanks for the tip, i never knew about this capability!