I wonder is it that Roland/Cakewalk clearly don’t see their combination competing with Yamaha/Steinberg … or that they foresee the end of growth in the software DAW market and want out?
In 1998, Opcode was bought by Gibson Guitar Corporation. Development on Opcode products ceased in 1999.[1]
Some of Opcode’s ex-employees went on to be part of Apple’s Mac OS X Core Audio and MIDI software development.
…and the Opcode midi interface. I basically gave away an 8port Se on Ebay last month. Steiny at least came back with support for the Midex. Steinberg ongoing support is better than most when you bother to look at the facts
Yeah. I have an old midi interface from them too. Also, I have a Zeta violin, which company was bought by Gibson, completely ignored by them, and then sold. It has been languishing since. There’s a pattern…
Yea… I just threw my 8Port Se away! There was a guy developing a Win XP driver for a while, but I could never get it to work properly! Plus the fact that the parallel port went the way of the Dodo in favor of other interface development!
I was just reading the Mavericks page at apple.com, they make dramatic claims about increased performance compared to 10.8. We’ll see. The kind of folksy hyped language raises my hackles and my skepticism level.
I found that site and the developer was pretty upfront on the pitfall, especially with the 64x driver he made. I thought I might get mileage from a usb to parallel port converter with the 64x driver but he was quick to point out that the converters didnt work for midi. Now his site is gone. My 8port sold for .99 cents cause I wasn’t paying attention to the auction and EBay doesn’t make it easy to set a minimum. I’ll never sell there again, Craigslist much better. I would have saved time to put mine in the trash like you did