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Re: 8-bit MIDI Software?

On 7/11/2010 11:30 PM, ict@ccess wrote:

Simon D. Williams wrote:

I've been scouring the net looking for some good MIDI software for the
IIe -- and not having any luck. I have a Passport Designs card that I want
to use with my Drumulator, but the Korg 800 sequencer software I have only
does real-time recording... I need something I can use for step entry. Any
suggestions?

 From what I've read, it seems that Master Tracks might be what I need, but
I've only been able to find IIgs and Atari versions online and the IIc
version for sale (expensive!). As an aside, I have to wonder about using
the IIc with MIDI, considering it has trouble with a 9600 baud, I don't
see how it could possibly keep up with MIDI's ~30K???


My Passport Designs card came with the software called "MIDI/8 plus
" and does all that you want.  I tried to make a .dsk file but tracks
3 and 16 are uncopiable.  Although the files do show up with a
catalog.  I tried recreating the the image file on a blank disk but
the disk is still unbootable or more acurately, it boots to a certain
stage and then just beeps.

I will try Copy II plus bit copy method later, then maybe we can talk
about good old regular mail.


Passport disks can be deprotected with considerable effort.

They have a novel, multi-level protection scheme involving lots of
"misdirection" and encryption, all keyed by a very clever scheme
of resetting the disk controller with precise timing to allow
normally unsynced nibbles to be read.

-michael

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