mlan driver

...Congratulations Apple, you've made a switcher(tm) out of me! 😉

N/A Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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N/A Mac OS X (10.4.5)

MLAN update, puh-lease...

The poor mLAN support, the transition to Intel, the integrated Intel graphics on the new Intel Mini..Just a few of the reasons my next machine will be a PC dual booting Kubuntu Linux, and XP. I've been a staunch Mac user for years, but their recent direction is beggining to p!ss me off. Granted I plan to hang on to my PowerPC Mac Mini.

N/A Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Jeffason, you've misinterpreted the purpose of my post if you think it was intended to belittle your experiences with the Firestation. My point was that the 01X, i88x, and/or any of Yamaha's high end mixers are really nice products that work well with mLAN. It is clearly in a new stage. That is all. Furthermore, the post was meant to express why the mLAN community is so interested in progress on Apple's end.

I will however address your pointed comments where necessary.

1. No, who could possibly suggest that you don't deserve a working audio device? Not sure why you came to that conclusion.

2. Agreed, the last time we saw CPU improved for mLAN B/Mac users was in X.3.7. It needs improving, no doubt.

3. The jitter is very low. You misunderstand why it would be desirable to have other devices be the wordclock master. Right now Mac users are forced to have the computer be master. But if you own a high quality mLAN card like the MY16mLAN in a high end mixer like the DM1000, you would obviously want the DM1000 to be wordclock master, not the Mac.

4. The i88x is cheap because it was a slow seller at the original price point. Besides the fact that the device is a few years old and Yamaha's competitors have been releasing competing preamp boxes for half the price of what Yamaha wanted for the i88x.

Your speculation about Apple investing time in other technologies is obviously more than speculation. We can see that from their new partnership with Apogee in their ENSEMBLE. The OSX integration is very nice. They introduced it at NAMM this year and it has been a part of the LogicPro Road Show for a few weeks. http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/ensemble.php

Anyway, the mLAN community is not satisfied with what is being done to improve our situation and a few of us came here to voice that. That's all, Jeff. No offense to you intended.

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.