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From: ugebrown@sunybcs.UUCP (Erik Brown)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro,net.music.synth
Subject: Hooking up a MacIntosh Plus and a MacMicrovax (again)
Message-ID: <215@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 16:41:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 16:41:23 1986
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Last week I posted a request for information on hooking up a MacIntosh
Plus to a Microvax, and I received several very helpful replies, all of
which suggested using the Mac as a terminal and using communications
software like Macterminal or Kermit to do file transfers...

What I really would like to do is cook up some sort of high-speed link
using the Mac's SCSI connection.  The application involves driving a
synthesizer, and I would like the whole process to take place more or
less in real time.  The synthesizer is a Kurzweil 250, for which Kurzweil
provides something called the Macattach through which the MacIntosh drives
the synth using the MIDI protocol.  I want to run composing programs on 
the Microvax, then send the output to the Mac, which will act like
a smart interface between the Microvax and the synth...I may also try
and control the synth directly without using MIDI.   Any suggestions?

Thanks again,
Michael Domino