 Motu Tells Customer To Stick Serial Cable Up..., ...well, not into a g4Port. |
 jeu. 15 août 2002, 22:28
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Just got word that MOTU is abandoning all MOTU serial port MIDI hardware owners as far as OS X goes. As far as MOTU is concerned, if you own a MOTU serial interface MIDI device, you can take your serial cable and shove it up...well, into a PC, maybe?
Got this from a friend who is stuck with a $400.00 paperweight with a pretty blue unicorn logo on it, currently doing battle with MOTU. The unit works just *fine* under OS 9.x, so it ain't the serial card, and it ain't the hardware. MOTU is just abandoning all support for their entire serial line apparently, at least as far as Mac OS X. I'll try to get more details as the saga drags on. Pathetic. |
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ven. 16 août 2002, 21:53
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that is bad to hear but then again... I can understand MOTU's view though too. The amount of users who would be running OSX and using a serial bus Apple is probably about 5% or less of their customers. The time and amount of money spent to develop new drivers and such probably wasn't worth it for them.
Another instance that sometimes its just better to upgrade the whole computer rather than just the CPU... as fast as technology moves... its just too hard to hold on to older hardware and make it work with newer software and peripherials. 
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Levon River Motu Tells Customer To Stick Serial Cable Up... jeu. 15 août 2002, 22:28
Levon River It has nothing to do with the age of the computer.... sam. 17 août 2002, 03:27 Synthetic you are right... its not the best business practic... lun. 19 août 2002, 19:06 gdoubleyou I also frequent the Opcode users group at Topica.
... mar. 20 août 2002, 00:52 Levon River So, gdoubleyou, would you ask the horse's mout... dim. 25 août 2002, 10:35 Synthetik I guess the main thing is that OSX will not run pr... dim. 25 août 2002, 23:59 gdoubleyou Don't know what's in the 10.2 folder, but ... mar. 27 août 2002, 00:04 gdoubleyou I also found this statement from an emagic emplyee... mer. 11 sept. 2002, 00:35
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