MIDI router for OS9?

[commodorejohn]

I'm trying to strategize a setup for my slowly-increasing collection of MIDI gear, and one of the things I'd like is for it to be portable. To that end, I'd like to use my Pismo, since it's pretty rugged and has dual batteries. Mostly I can get by with just running MIDI in to MIDI out, since the keyboards I'd be using can use different transmit channels and do patch-changes, but more generalized routing capability couldn't hurt. I wouldn't need quite the crazy configurability that MIDI-OX on Windows provides, but one thing I'd specifically like is the ability to do a keyboard-split and send input from one channel to two different output channels, since my Radium 49 doesn't have this capability.

Anybody have a good recommendation for an OS9-compatible program for this sort of thing?

 

[Bunsen]

OMS was the standard back in the day. (Opcode Music System, later Open Music System). Stable, reliable, easy to set up.

If you are working entirely inside one program though, Logic and/or Cubase will also handle MIDI routing internally.

Apple MIDI Manager was a mess. Avoid.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

Yep. Use OMS. Free, too (also comes with ProTools Free if you have that). My music iMac uses OMS.

 

[Gil]

Also look a MOTU's FreeMIDI.