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Mac Osx - Core Audio/midi

Ok, please bear with me!

For years I've been doing all of my music production on a PC and switched to a MAC a while ago but am really now just getting to trying to make it all work out. All of this time I have been using VST to get realistic instrument sounds, which I thought was generic, but recently learned that every program has a proprietary format.

Apparently there is MAS for DP4 (what I currently use), VST for Steinberg stuff (I use an older Cubase 1.051) and now there is Core Audio & Core Midi.

Does anyone know how I can utilize Core Audio / Midi with DP4? It says it supports it, but I'm not seeing any instruments out there for Core (which sucks because there isnt' much for MAS either).

I understand that Audio Units is the new standard that, supposedly, all software programs are being forced to adopt by Apple since they acquired Emagic. I also understand that, soon, DP4 is supposed to support AU through a free patch (thank God, it was EXPENSIVE software).

I would be happy simply using MAS but the only MAS stuff I can find is for MAC OS9 and not X.

Can anyone give me some ideas? I simply want to record some MIDI and put realistic instruments to the tracks in DP4 and all this stuff is so confusing! It would see that VST is the ONLY way to go, particularly under MAC OS X, but I prefer the DP4 interface over Cubase. I would use VST Wrappers, but they don't support DP4 or MAC OS X so that really doesn't help much.

I know I can buy MachFive, but to add that much more money to something that appears to be very poorly supported (DP4 & MAS) seems ridiculous.

Should I be buying Reason? I know that DP4 supports Reason & Rewire and they appear to provide VST ability to DP4 but I'm just so unclear about everything that I don't know what direction to go.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Getting Cubase Sx To Play Midi

Hello,

I have a G4/500MHz with 1GB RAM running Panther 10.3. I am having a heck of a time getting Cubase SX 1.051 to play MIDI files! I can watch the levels and see that something is going out, but no sound form either my Internal sound card or via my M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (newest 10.3 driver installed).

I am new to both Cubase SX and music production on the MAC. I have Digital Performer 4.1 and everything works great, but in Cubase I cannot get anything to sound out. I can import an audio file and it will play without a hitch.

Here is what I have tried so far:
Creating VST instruments and re-mapping them
Setting up VST Multitrack to play through every interface (internal audio, different ports on my Audiophile, etc.)
Cussing

Nothing seems to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I prefer DP4.1 but I don't know how to get VST instruments to work through it so I'm using Cubase SX instead. Arghhh!

Thank You!