Unsupported MIDI interface drivers on Intel Macs

Feb 03, '06 05:50:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I purchased an Intel Mac, but found out that the drivers for my Yamaha UX-16 MIDI Interface don't work on the new machine, so I couldn't use my new machine to record into GarageBand. Good thing is that I still have my old PowerBook G4, which works just fine with the UX-16, so I thought I'd try to somehow forward MIDI input received by PowerBook to my Intel iMac. And fortunately, I found just the way to do it. The secret was to use Apple's standard Audio MIDI Setup application. Here's how I did it:

Now you should be able to forward MIDI input from the supported device on the old Mac to the Intel Mac! Of course this only works if you have an old Mac which has compatible drivers for your MIDI interface, but at least this could be a partial solution for people stuck for some time without Intel-compatible drivers.

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