From: wang@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Charles Wang 3740)
Subject: PB100/MIDI works? SOS!!!!
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 23:31:27 GMT


Hi Nick and Metlay and all the other PB100 interested parties,

Nick said:
>
>Performer, MAX, MIDI Manager, OMS and others. Works fine on a 100.
>Works fine on a 140 using OMS 1.2 as well.
>
>Oh, for a $ for every time I have to post something on this topic...
>
>Nick.
>--
>                        Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
>     CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
>          cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
>          cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."

And Metlay said:
>
>I'm running Galaxy and Vision, and Nick is running Performer. They
>all work flawlessly. Period.
>
>--
>metlay                    |
>                          | General MIDI is God's way of saying "Duh."
>                          |
>metlay@netcom.netcom.com  |
>


	I've seen a lot of discussion on PB100 on the net, it had
	been very encouraging that PB100 is a great MIDI engine.
	Therefore I went to buy one of the PB100, upgraded it to
	8M RAM and ready to play music. But suddently almost all
	the music stores said to me that: Oops, PB100 is the only
	machine that CANNOT run MIDI... Gee! I am confused.

	I certaintly don't trust those Music stores guy that much,
	because they said it works great while selling you stuffs and
	said oops when you have problems and come back to them.
	But what happened to me was that:

	1, I've tried Finale and it drove my PB100 crazy. Coda support
	   guy told me that the Finale does NOT work on PB100 after
	   I struggled for almost 2 weeks. 

	2, I went to Professional Sound & Music in San Diego yesterday,
	   and asked them to try Performer on my PB100. They installed
	   a demo version (not current version) of Performer on my
	   PB100, but the MIDI monitor was not responding at all.
	   They concluded, again, that I need to get a PB140+ or a real Mac.

	My question is that based on

		a, Objective: Use PB100 as a sequencer
		b, Hardware Configuration:
			PB100 8/20
			MIDI Interface
			MIDI Controller
			Sound Canvas
		
		if I go ahead to buy a Performer, Galaxy or Vision,
		will the system work at all? Do I need to put some tricks
		to make it work? Do I need extra hardware or special
		brand MIDI Interface? Or extra software?

	If the PB100 can ever work for me, it will be great! I'm more
	than willing to get thing that needed to make it work.

	I believe there are still a lot of people out there experiencing
	difficulties with PB100/MIDI set up. Please all experts on the
	net that have had it worked post your experiences a little bit
	more specificly. "It works flawlessly" used to help me make
	the dicision to buy PB100, but it does not help me too much
	on the difficulties I'm having now.

	Please help me. (I'm sure it will help a lot of PB100 ownwers, too.)
	Thank you very much for your opinion and time.

Charles Wang
charles.wang@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com

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