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Hi all,
I know it is probably not the exact right forum to post my issue, but it is the most relating one: I just return from Frankfurt Messe, where I tried to get an answer regarding Mlan driver development. Supposedly there were one gentleman called Craig Linster who would be the only one to help me with my issue. Unfortunately he was not around at the stand and I had go on to met my other appointments.
As the ones who are using M-Lan might know, at the current driver stage it is not possible to configure M-Lan devises to be wordclock master in an Mac based recording set-up ( It is possible on PC). As discussed at the forums at <<http://www.01xray.com/forums/index.php?Cat=7>> Apple supposedly lost interest in further support of PPC code, as they focus on Intel. This leaves an whole community of M-Lan user with an half working set-up with the urgent need of any comment from Apple regarding this issue. So if any of the readers of this post know how to contact this gentleman Craig Linster ( Supposedly the Audio guy for the developer community) or have any other helpful comment, please let us know!
Thanks in advance!

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Yamaha 01x/i88x

Posted on Mar 31, 2006 12:52 AM

21 replies

May 8, 2006 10:17 PM in response to Till Erb

MLAN update, puh-lease...

May 17, 2006 8:24 PM in response to Till Erb

I am in the process of Returning to MAC... now have two iMACs (one intel) and a Intel MacBook Pro. I also just bought a Yamaha O1V96 Ver.2 and of course an MY16 M-Lan card! So then it was simply toss my costly Sonar Producer and buy Logic Pro... Oh yeah, let's not forget the PT M-Powered package so Son #2 can use the MacBook Pro at Audio Engineering School.... Apple.... Please don't leave us all adrift... Please fix m-lan interface and intel mac compatability!! Please! You are on the verge of regaining some market share don't mess it up... Also if anyone has a similar setup in mind please let me know.
Thanks

Macbook Pro (Intel) and Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

May 29, 2006 2:37 PM in response to Ricksbeat

This thread really hits the nail on the head about Apple's (and most everyone else's, for that matter) mLAN (non-) support. Call me cynical, but my guess is that Apple and Yamaha agreed on the mLAN system before Yamaha bought Steinberg and all of its software that directly competes with Apple's music/audio software. Now neither is going to do the other any favors, at our expense. But we all must find solutions that work for us and without being burdened by the product loyalty that the manufacturers apparently don't especially care to honor.

So, I am now trying to find something that will let my son continue composing on a wonderful Yamaha s90ES keyboard. Before we knew about the war and before the Intel Macs came out, we bought an mLAN16E card for the s90ES and Steinberg's Cubase SX3, the latter because it seemed to be the only cross-platform software. My son was never able to get Cubase to work on his HP Media Center pc (plenty of RAM and disk space). We decided to go to a 15" MacBook Pro this summer (2GB RAM and 7200 rpm hard drive) and just want to purchase a combination that will work. We have installed the OS X mLAN drivers but the MBP and Rosetta don't like them. The screen darkens and there's a four-language message to restart the MBP. Haven't tried Cubase in OS X/Rosetta yet, but expect the worst.

So, what to do? Cubase SX3 and the mLAN16E card running in XP through Parallels or would it be too processor intensive? Would bypassing the mLAN16E in favor of a Yamaha 01X or i88x be better? Or should we just swallow hard and go to the Intel/Universal Binary Logic Pro 7 and buy the hardware MIDI interface/mixer board that will work well with that? If so, what is the best hardware interface/mixer board for the Intel/Universal Binary Logic Pro 7?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

15" 1.67 Ghz Aluminum PowerBook G4, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 128 Mb VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) 23" Cinema HD Display, OfficeJet G55, Ethernet and Wireless Mixed Mac/PC Network

Jun 28, 2006 11:37 PM in response to Paul D. Mathias

Paul,
Yamaha has commited themselves to a Universal Binary release of the mLAN software so mLAN will run natively on your MacBookPro. We expect release within the next week (I am writing this on the morning of June, 29).
http://www.mlancentral.com/
"Yamaha Japan has planned to release drivers for the Intel Macs by the end of June, 2006".

In light of this, you have two very viable options. Wait a bit longer (not much) for the UB release of mLAN, or do the Boot Camp thing with your MacBookPro. We have a few users on 01Xray.com (and I know a few in my neighborhood) who are running XP on their MacBooks without issue. Far better than any virtualization, including Parallels for our purposes.

Also, with an instrument like the S90ES, you are not cornered into using mLAN exclusively in the least. This keyboard has MIDI and Audio I/O in the very standard sense, so you could always just use a USB MIDI interface and audio cables to sequence and record. You have plenty of options here. Please feel free to visit at 01xray.com and post. We would be more than happy to help.

Jun 30, 2006 12:05 AM in response to ElmerJFudd

The intel support (UB mLAN tools) has arrived and is downloadable here:
http://www.mlancentral.com/drivers.php

Jun 30, 2006 6:36 AM in response to ElmerJFudd

Thanks for your kind assistance, Elmer. We will be downloading the mLAN tools soon. Notice that you're using Logic Pro, so you must like it. Too bad the free trial of Logic Pro Express is not Universal Binary yet.

Thanks also for the invitation to the 01xray site. I will check in and post as needed for additional assistance.

PDM

15" 1.67 Ghz Aluminum PowerBook G4, 2Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 128 Mb VRAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) 23" Cinema HD Display, OfficeJet G55, Ethernet and Wireless Mixed Mac/PC Network

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