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From: lwk@caen.engin.umich.edu (Woody Kellum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MIDI Manager woes...
Message-ID: <46d6de80.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 22:59:00 GMT
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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I bought the MIDI manager from APDA and, as Murphy would say, it never stood
a chance.  The demo programs communicate among themselves just fine, but when
I try to hook up an actual device to SquidCakes to monitor it, or when I try
to play it through SimpleKeys, etc, nothing works right.  Here's a summary
of the weirdness:
 
SquidCakes displays a $FD message every half-second.  I'm assuming that this
is my synth's Active Sense message, corrupted from $FE, what it should be.
The driver is supposed to mask out all the $FE's.
 
For every single message the synth puts out, notes, controls, etc, the 
SquidCakes displays "0 2 0 40".  If I hook from SimpleKeys to SquidCakes
and play a note on the SimpleKeys, I correctly see "90 xx 40" where xx is
the note value.  So the Squid is working right, it's gotta be the DRIVER.
 
Note that I use DMCS and Performer all the time, and they don't use the
MIDI manager but work 100% of the time!  Now I get the "New & Improved"
way of doing things and I can't get so much as a beep out of the synth.
APDA, ApplePeople, MIDIites, HELP!