zadco@ssc-vax.UUCP (Rick Fairfield) (09/08/84)
xxx There is a MIDI board and software available for APPLE (2e, 2+, Franklin, etc) from PASSPORT Designs. The software is powerful (4 track taperecorder-like sequencer, mainly) but very clumsy. You have to travel through menus to do anything and you often find that the thing you want to do is a couple of menus away. One good point about the PASSPORT s/w is that it works. In my limited use of the system (hooked up to a ROLAND synth - I can't remember which model) I did not find any features outlined in the manual which did not function as advertised. Sequential Circuits makes a MIDI board and software for the Commodore 64. I don't have any experience with this system except that I know it sometimes 'hangs up' when used with a Yamaha DX synth. A company called J.B. Cooper (or maybe J.L. Cooper?) sells a number of special MIDI boxes to do such things as interfacing to analog equipment and providing MIDI expansion ports. As far as I know there is not currently a MIDI interface for KAYPRO, IBM PC, S100, etc. There are special MIDI interfaces around. For example, I know of some people do MIDI software on a VAX. As I do not have a VAX at home this fact does not help me. Hope this helps, zadco ssc-vax!zadco
fu@dspo.UUCP (09/19/84)
I do know of one company that is making a MIDI board for the IBM/PC, I don't know the name of the company, as that had not been decided on at the time. What I saw looked fairly nice. The person to contact would be a person named Craig Minor, in Pasadena. You should be able to get to him through his old dorm, whose address is 1-60, Caltech Pasadena, CA 91126 Castor Fu dspo!fu@LANL.ARPA (for two more days)