Macobyte
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Hello! Posting a desperate plea for help here as I’m not sure what’s going wrong or what I’m missing from the equation.
I have an SE/30 running 7.5.5. Installed I have Ballade for playing MIDI tracks, MIDI Manager, and OMS. I deactivated AppleTalk. I have a Roland SC-88 Pro I can’t get the Mac to talk to. I have it connected over serial (on both devices, the SC’s serial switch on “Mac”) and via a serial connection to a Midiman Mini Macman MIDI interface (with a MIDI cable from the Mini MacMan’s OUT port to the SC’s MIDI IN A port, and its serial switch on “MIDI”).
No matter how I connect the two hardware devices or whether I uninstall MIDI Manager, OMS, or have both installed, my Mac refuses to see anything MIDI, outside of the power light for the Mini Macman turning on. When I start Ballade, I get the following error dialog: “MIDI Manager returned error. Please check the connection to your MIDI interface.”
What am I doing wrong? Has anyone here used MIDI devices, particularly a Sound Canvas or the like, with their old Mac? I keep banging my head against the wall troubleshooting and never making any progress.
Thanks in advance!
(Images of my SE/30’s screen we’re taken with Live Photo long exposures to cut down on the banding. The screen looks bright and crisp in reality.)
I have an SE/30 running 7.5.5. Installed I have Ballade for playing MIDI tracks, MIDI Manager, and OMS. I deactivated AppleTalk. I have a Roland SC-88 Pro I can’t get the Mac to talk to. I have it connected over serial (on both devices, the SC’s serial switch on “Mac”) and via a serial connection to a Midiman Mini Macman MIDI interface (with a MIDI cable from the Mini MacMan’s OUT port to the SC’s MIDI IN A port, and its serial switch on “MIDI”).
No matter how I connect the two hardware devices or whether I uninstall MIDI Manager, OMS, or have both installed, my Mac refuses to see anything MIDI, outside of the power light for the Mini Macman turning on. When I start Ballade, I get the following error dialog: “MIDI Manager returned error. Please check the connection to your MIDI interface.”
What am I doing wrong? Has anyone here used MIDI devices, particularly a Sound Canvas or the like, with their old Mac? I keep banging my head against the wall troubleshooting and never making any progress.
Thanks in advance!
(Images of my SE/30’s screen we’re taken with Live Photo long exposures to cut down on the banding. The screen looks bright and crisp in reality.)
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