Nobody Talking About MIDI support? no IAc support on FUSION?

[Dj-Grobe]

Me , like the rest of djs, musician, producers, or any guy work with musica, have a big interest in use vmware or pararalles.

Usually not all VST, or audio tools available for windows, exist for MAC, for that reason this solutions can be the final solution........

Anyway i really suprised, nobody consider siriusly to add MIDI support with IAC conection to MAC (IAC ITS VIRTUAL MIDI BUS ON OSX)

paralleles, or vmware JUST SKIP THIS VERY VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE.

Imagine if i can connect REASON to windows VST runing on windows VST HOST !!

I hoppe some developer read this, and start cosider add this support for the next version, i use paralleles, but now i plain move to VMWARE due they everytime upgrade version, something fixed in older version, its broken again......lol hoppe this not happen with VMWARE

PLEASE ADD MIDI SUPPORT !! WITH IAC BUS \!!! : )

[rcardona2k]

Have you tried any USB-to-MIDI interfaces? In the short term, wouldn't count on any pass-through support for any host MIDI support. Your best bet is bridging your MIDI devices directly to the VM over USB.

[Dj-Grobe]

No thankyou, no interested in test that PATCH.

IAC bus, on mac osx its avirtual MIDI port system you can iconect any midi software with other using IAC bus, something like MIDI YOKE under window.

The idea is conect directly, interally without make usage of extra hardware.....

Its like i say to you, for listen sound under windows, use AUDIO USB, lol

Imagine,.............with MIDI is the SAME, just need add suport for conect MIDI from windows to IAC on osx.

This feature broke, lot of wall,s we the djs, musician , producers we have for years..........

Thankyou anyway for your sugestion

[admin]

I don't know anything about IAC or anything more than a passing familiarity with MIDI. Do you know of \*any* virtualization platform that supports IAC? Every subsystem you want to virtualize requires work to get it right, and some (such as hardware-accelerated video) are stubborn. In contrast, USB is a working, tested subsystem.

I'm not saying IAC support will or won't happen -- I don't know -- but currently your best bet is to do what Richard described and use a USB-MIDI converter.

[Dj-Grobe]

The solution sugested, its like i say, if you want better netowrk, install USB network device.... NO ! : ) thankyou ! : )

[rcardona2k]

>The solution sugested, its like i say, if you want better network, install USB network device.... NO ! : ) thankyou ! : )

Are you sure your opinion isn't shaped by the speed of USB 1.1? Fusion has USB 2.0 support and I have successfully installed many USB 2.0 fobs on older PCs for wireless internet access and been very happy with the network performance.

I can't imagine MIDI requiring any throughput that maxes out USB 2.0. Do you have something against the physical interface? Even on mini-connector midi ports, I imagine you're connecting to a junction hub, not directly to the port.

[MadScient1st]

Whenever I connect a USB midi device, my VM hangs with 100% CPU usage... does anybody actually have this working the way people are suggesting?

[admin]

Which device is this? Can you use it on native hardware OK (e.g. are you sure it's working)?

[MadScient1st]

It's a Roland HP-series digital piano, and it works fine on the host - running Linux x86_64 and using the generic USB audio driver. The guest is Win2K.

[MadScient1st]

Sorry, I just realized this was the Fusion forum... I did a search for USB MIDI, found this thread, and added my comments, but clearly it's in the wrong place since I run a Linux host.

[mattpound]

I'd like this feature as well.

If it could intergrate with CoreMIDI and CoreAudio it would be fantastic. I could then run apps like Rebirth in Windows XP and have them pass audio back to OSX without configuring any extra hardware.

[mrdelurk]

I wonder if Fusion 3 offers more MIDI support? That would be a premier reason to upgrade from 2. (Other than that, I got everything working A-OK with 2)

I do have some MIDI programs successfully installed in two different VM's and the host OSX, I just haven't plugged a MIDI keyboard yet into the Mac's M-Audio 24/96 PCI MIDI card. I'll try it this weekend.

If you don't hear from me, it will mean, I managed to bring down the whole system with it )

[bgertzfield]

I wonder if Fusion 3 offers more MIDI support? That would be a premier reason to upgrade from 2. (Other than that, I got everything working A-OK with 2)

Fusion 3's support for MIDI is the same as Fusion 2: if you plug in a USB-to-MIDI adapter, it will work.

[mrdelurk]

Correct, I can run MIDI apps fine in virtual machines with real world MIDI synths. All it takes is a $5 USB to MIDI adapter from eBay.

What stumped me for a long time was that the M-Audio 2496 card I tried this with at first was dead. Kaputt, goner, fried. It took me a while to figure out, that's where the problem is. As soon as I plugged in a USB to MIDI adapter... bingo!