Recent content by Jason K

Nebraska...Australian for "Less Discerning"

IGNORANCE IS BLISS. I decided to force the serial port open/closed another time. Set up a new OMS profile but still got the same message. "Serial Port in use by another application." So, I did what any self-respecting Macophile would do...I decided to ignore it. Went to SoundBridge loaded...

My Appletalk is currently inactive, and my old Performa doesn't feature an Ethernet port. Only serial printer, serial modem, serial keyboard and SCSI. The Port Peek app did have a force open and force close feature, but that didn't change anything. I'm wondering if you're thinking of the...

With much help and support, 3 Macs, 2 Zip Drives, a flash drive and even a floppy, I'm sunk. Still get the "port in use" error. Got an app called Port Peep that says the port is available. I'm thinking this isn't even possible anymore. Any serial-to-midi, USB-to-midi things anyone has had...

Can't find a 7.5.1 updater. I have the 7.5.3 updater, but it won't work without a previous 7.5.0, 7.5.1 or 7.5.2. So I need to find a way to get from 7.1 to 7.5.1 somehow. I've been looking for hours. Found alot of dead links and 7.5.3's, so I'm going to bed. G'night.

Gotta upgrade to 7.5.1 to get the Reset Serial App installed. "It just goes to show ya. It's always somethin'."

Tried trashing prefs. Tried trashing all prefs. Disabled some unnecessary extensions, too. Zapped PRAM. Changed cables. Nothin' doin'. I did find a 'Reset Serial Channel' app, but I have to transfer it over to a zip disk or floppy so I can get it on the Performa. After that, I'm at a loss...

Now I need to fix this: "The modem port is not available for MIDI. It is in use by another application." (After a port becomes available, open the OMS MIDI dialog or switch applications for OMS to notice. But I have no other applications running. Something else causing conflict? New error...

I was tinkering...and found some other options that I didn't know existed. The documentation on this junk is so incomplete. Assigning the modem port to Alesis QS MIDI somethingoranother gets me reallllllly close. It automatically sets up as a QS7, though. I'm needing it to be a QS6. Is it...

Sad to say, that's not the trick. It is, indeed a PC/Mac switch. Changing it over to 'PC' resulted in nothing showing up in the OMS Driver Setup window (reference my 3rd pic above). When switched to 'Mac' I get the Std. Interface, Modem icon and description (as seen above). Maybe this is a...

So there you have it. Any help, as always, from any hemisphere is appreciated. Thanks guys! Jason

Re: Bunsen - No, no switch for serial/midi. There is a switch for Mac/PC. All verbiage alludes to plug-n-play...yeah, right. I thought I would add some screenshots of my workflow to see if I am missing something, which obviously I am. Let's play the home game...

Sorry. I saw Performa and I got click-happy. It's actually a Performa 575. Indeed I tried OMS separately from Midi Manager. Both looked promising at first, but couldn't cut the mustard in communicating with the keyboard. Maybe going from the serial port to a MidiMan MacMan and to the...

I am trying to load some samples onto a flash card in my Alesis QS6.1 synth. Documentation says I can go serial port (Mac) to serial port (Alesis). The included software OMS and Midi Manager don't seem to quite get as far as they need to, and I get the error message that the Performa can't...