Mac connected to a PC
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- KVRist
- 285 posts since 24 Feb, 2005 from Berlin, Germany
I would like to connect my Mac (OSX 10.3.9) to a PC with WinXP in order to use Gigasampler and other stuff wich is unavailable for the Mac platform. I heard about LAN connections but have no idea if they can transfer both MIDI and audio and if they really work... Any hint? Who has already experience in this matter? Thanx.
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- KVRist
- 144 posts since 17 Nov, 2000 from Chicago IL
hey, edoosx
I don't know much about networking a pc and a mac but I believe there should be a way to do that.
However, if you are using the PC as a sampler then you can just treat it as a midi instrument. Just use MIDI interfaces to connect both of them. The game port on the PC can be used as a MIDI interface. If you don't like that then some USB to midi cables should do it.
But if you want to transfer files between both of them then you definitely need to network them.
cheers
I don't know much about networking a pc and a mac but I believe there should be a way to do that.
However, if you are using the PC as a sampler then you can just treat it as a midi instrument. Just use MIDI interfaces to connect both of them. The game port on the PC can be used as a MIDI interface. If you don't like that then some USB to midi cables should do it.
But if you want to transfer files between both of them then you definitely need to network them.
cheers
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 285 posts since 24 Feb, 2005 from Berlin, Germany
thank you adaerus! i was wondering if there was the possibility to see then the single outputs of the sampler back into my logic mixer. so i could add eq etc. but i don't know if mac and pc can work well when connected and the latency could be too much as well. i've really no experience so i hope someone will post here 
i need suggestions about the networking software too...
i need suggestions about the networking software too...-
- KVRAF
- 3476 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from NE Ohio, USA
If you were running VST's I'd say to look at products in this thread, but I'm not sure how many of those will both work on PC and Mac, and support a non-VST application like Giga.
If you use MIDI cables + audio cables you'll have latency issues. How bad? dunno.
A networkable cross-platform Rewire implementation (someone go bug the Props) would work here, but AFAIK it hasn't been done yet, and last I looked the Props were limiting Rewire docs to "commercial" developers.
Doug
If you use MIDI cables + audio cables you'll have latency issues. How bad? dunno.
A networkable cross-platform Rewire implementation (someone go bug the Props) would work here, but AFAIK it hasn't been done yet, and last I looked the Props were limiting Rewire docs to "commercial" developers.
Doug
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