Emagic SoundDiver Refusing to let go. First let me start off by saying that SoundDiver is my 2nd most used piece of music software after Logic Pro. I have been using it since I got my first Mac in 1998 (version 2.0.4 I think); it is without doubt the best piece of software ever written for editing MIDI devices. It allows me to save all my patches for each song in a library and move patches around with ease. Editing MIDI devices using SoundDiver on a big monitor makes the job so much more intuitive and fun than trying to edit some of these devices using their own tiny displays, I think someone once described that process as “like trying to paint a room through a letterbox”! When editing using SoundDiver you tend to learn how to edit and work your MIDI devices a lot faster than reading any user manuals. In Mac OS9, Logic and SoundDiver could be used at the same time using a great feature called Autolink. This was brilliant because it allowed you to load all the patches for a song into your devices from a SoundDiver library as soon as you opened a Logic Song, all automatically. It also fed patch names into Logic’s Multi instrument objects from the Patch banks setup in SoundDiver. Most importantly (which at the time seemed a given), it allowed you to use Logic, SoundDiver and a Unitor8/AMT8 MIDI interface at the SAME TIME. Enter Mac OS X. Along came this amazing new OS and really did throw a spanner in the works! I switched to Mac OS X for music in 2005 mainly because Logic was rock solid using it, but that left me with a bit of a problem with SoundDiver. Autolink was gone and while SoundDiver ran OK in Classic in Mac OS X, it couldn’t be used at the same time as Logic when trying to use the same MIDI interface for the 2 programs, aargh! Emagic did release a beta version for OS X, but I think it was more of a gesture than a serious piece of software, quite frankly, it’s crap. One of the buggiest pieces of software I’ve used and can’t believe it was ever released. Problems for me include: • 3 of the adaptions I use don’t work correctly • The patch dependency manager doesn’t work properly • It’s way too easy to quit the program with patches unsaved! • It quits unexpectedly far too often • When used alongside Logic and you open a new song, notes get transposed in Logic So I decided to use SoundDiver only in Classic, not as convenient as the (booted in) OS9 days but it worked correctly and was stable. I just had to get used to quitting out of Logic to use SoundDiver. Leopard, Intel – and a whole new set of problems. When Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) came out I realised this was gonna cause some serious difficulties running SoundDiver because Classic was no more. Mac OS 9 had finally bitten the dust and it was looking as though SoundDiver was heading that way too if I were to upgrade to this new OS. The solution Although it went against the grain to admit it, the solution to running SoundDiver on Leopard was Windows XP. In Mac OS9, Logic and SoundDiver could be used at the same time using a great feature called Autolink. News: The Mac OS 9 Lives Forum is dedicated. I'll download the files and then. I do not have access to MAJOR MAC BACKUP but we need that SoundDiver 3.0.1 crack. Emagic Downloads Emagic was a music software and hardware company based in Rellingen, Germany and a satellite office in Grass Valley, CA. On July 1, 2002 Emagic was bought by Apple Computer. Article about using Emagic SoundDiver on an Intel Mac by Cellsonik. Yes, a move to the ‘Dark Side’ was in order to get SoundDiver up and running alongside Logic Pro on Leopard! This move was quite an expensive one for me because in order to run Windows XP at full speed on Leopard it meant using Parallels, which only ran on Intel Macs. I was thinking of upgrading my trusty Power Mac G4 later in the year (2008) but the realisation that Leopard was not gonna run SoundDiver without Parallels made the decision for me. So one new Mac Pro and a copy of Parallels later I set about installing SoundDiver on Windows XP within Parallels. After going through the usual ‘jumping through hoops’ you get when installing drivers in Windows, I had it working using my AMT8 as the MIDI interface.
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