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Originally Posted by nofi  so... you know NOBODY.... no-one at all.... no friends... no family.... no work colleagues... who has a windows machine you can take your keyboard over to, (or a laptop that can be brought to you!) and connect it up for 10 minutes just once to do a simple firmware upgrade?
That's pretty hard to believe.
I reckon you're just not trying to get it done. or, more correctly... trying to be a bloody minded OS fanatic. |
I am in the same position. The fact is, in my setup, I've got all my MIDI interfaces
rackmounted and boxed in, connected to my OSX Mac.
Getting someone with a Laptop is the easy part. But then you're polluting their
installation with MIDI drivers, the EFUU utility and so forth, something when I ask my
PeeCee friends they are not happy about - because it may well upset their fragile
installations. And then asking a musician with a PC laptop is even more fraught since
you're actually hassling them even more since their setups are likewise fragile.
Likewise getting something done on an OS9 setup is fraught. You need to get the correct
MIDI driver, probably install OMS (which is a proper pain) and then install the EFUU.
So getting there is an issue.
I have investigated the use of "Midibridge" which is one possible solution but I do not
think there is a version for Intel Mac, yet. MidiBridge is a driver for Mac Classic mode
that allows you to run OS 9 MIDI apps in Classic mode, but connect to the MIDI interface
under OSX. But this may have latency and other issues that could cause EFUU to fail
leaving you with a crippled Europa.
I have been discussing with people porting the Mac EFUU source code to OSX, which is
not as hard as it may seem. In fact I would do it but have very little knowledge of how to
recode for CoreMIDI. So if there are any CoreMIDI programmers on here who would
like to earn huge kudos and port EFUU source code to OSX, please let us know.
For now, there is only MidiBridge and it doesn't work on Intel OSX.
rachel