carlos228 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi, another question: Does anybody know if it is possible to get the MoBo serial ports active under OSX ? On PC, I still work with my great but old unitor 8 MK1 (no USB, just serial) and I would like to connect it to my Mac Audio system. But is there any OSX drivers availably for the local serial ports ? Or, is there generally any possibility that core midi will connect to this interface ? many thanks - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limini Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Sorry, I can't help you with regards to running serial ports on OSX; maybe someone else will chime in. One alternative for these older multi-port interfaces is to either keep them connected to the active PC or dedicate an older PC to them and then use network MIDI and port mapping to access the interface ports from another computer. Something like MIDIoverLAN can do this, though I believe that there may be other cheaper alternatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bongfury Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Carlos, I think you're going to be out of luck, firstly you'll need a PCI Card which provides mac serial (does unitor support Mac Serial?), pray that works in you're hacky, then it's a case of getting old drivers to work (logic 8 does come with a legacy hardware install to provide drivers for the Unitor Family, AMT8 and MT4 as the older ones you can download via apple/emagic FTP won't work... not so sure about if they would support serial though, prolly just USB). A few too many possible points of failure there I reckon. Limini's suggestion ain't bad but for the cost of Midioverlan or IPMidi, the only two solutions I know of which will support cross platform you can buy an 4xPort (possibly 8x) USB midi interface.. not a great deal of advantage in doing it in software really in this case (unless you're midi needs are huge and your using a lot of softsynths/sampler midi channels on the remote machine in real time (gigasampler wasn't it?).. it presents quite a few obvious disadvantages too. maybe keep the Unitor (with the Scope) on the remote PC and invest in that adat interface (that has some built in midi ports?).. this running a hack/mac business don't half mean compromise/taking 3 steps back.. logic's worth it though!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlos228 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 thanks! I guess I will try a very small and cheap interface first to connect the master keyboard. Maybe the plugin setup of logic is good enough to replace external synths, so I don´t need the 8 ports of unitor any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparada78 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I dont know about serial ports but i got my Unitor 8 MK II working with Reason 4.0 through USB on 10.4.9 OSX86....it shows up in Audio MIDI Setup....i think it would also work for the AMT8 MT4...i posted the necessary info here... http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...tyDrivers#Audio Also very helpful to me was Unitor 8 Mk II on Intel The direct link to the Universal EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin.....just place in in your /Library/Audio/Midi Drivers folder...you can also get the file off the Logic Express 7.2 install disc...if you have one! EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin Took forever to figure this one out....and then i just had to tell someone! EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philmartins Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 so what was your final solution about ? I am in the same case, got an old unitor8 with no usb (just serial) and would like to use it with my early 2008 macbook pro ... Looks like standard adaptators will not work (because of midi clock) ... mac os x doesnt care anymore about serial ... well maybe I should buy a mkII one ... thanks for giving your final solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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