New With ??? About My Set Up Options

[torchsong]

Hi, new girl here with lots of questions about hardware and software.
I've read just about everything I can that is somewhat related to my situation but still have ????

I am a cellist and vocalist and want to make backing tracks to play with live and also make demo recordings on my computer. I come from the portastudio school of home recordings so the MIDI stuff is making me nuts!

Here's what I have:
imac running OS 9.2
DX7
Boss DRmkII
Behringer Eurorack
MOTU Fast Lane
Metro 5
OMS 2.3.8 grrrrrrr.....
cello with pickup (although I usually am miked for studio recording)
guitars
cables

I've tried to keep the basic set up simple but am having problems with OMS I think. Metro doesn't seem to like to work with Free MIDI.
I am also having problems playing back audio after recording a track, how am I supposed to hear what I've played to do over dubs?

BTW, I downloaded Pro Tools Free to try it out and just can't get the thing to open (memory error 1,010) so I gave up and went with Metro instead because it was inexpensive to start.

Thanks for any help, this is a great site!

[damann]

[quote=torchsong,Nov 23 2002, 22:15]
[QUOTE]

As for Metro and other software, do they only work best with OMS???
I won't ask why

Thanks for all the help![/quote]
hi torchsong,
nothing works "best" with oms unless, as in the case of digi, it insists on oms to WORK AT ALL!
reading this post, it really seems that you've configured free midi/oms correctly etc.
it has to be back to levon rivers' extension clash theory. did you try the system 9 set with the oms or free midi extensions as the only active 3rd party drivers?
are you running your music apps on a system that's also used for graphics, internet etc purposes?
for instance, yahoo mesenger & plenty of other non- music apps can screw things up.
consider the fact that maybe metro is the problem.
try pt le again, same problem?
versions, drivers, all up to date?
seems like the problem became different when you switched to freemidi, no?
metro famously dosen't really support midi! unlike digi, they at least don't pretend. s**t i have 2 b careful here.
techtool & or diskwarrior ARE essential to ensure your system isn't the problem. as levon says, stay away from norton!
keep the posts coming, good luck...