Does Midi work on Firebee ?

[AtariSociety]

I have an Amigan friend that has asked if the Firebee Midi port works. And if it does, what Atari Midi apps work with the Firebee and can these still be purchased used or online digital only?

I know nothing about Midi but he was curious so figured I would ask.

Thanks

TJ

[mfro]

I have an Amigan friend that has asked if the Firebee Midi port works. And if it does, what Atari Midi apps work with the Firebee and can these still be purchased used or online digital only?

I know nothing about Midi but he was curious so figured I would ask.

Thanks

TJ

The FireBee has all the hardware needed to support Midi, but the necessary soft-/firmware is not complete.

So the answer is: it could, but it doesn't, currently.

[hybridst]

I have an Amigan friend that has asked if the Firebee Midi port works. And if it does, what Atari Midi apps work with the Firebee and can these still be purchased used or online digital only?

I know nothing about Midi but he was curious so figured I would ask.

Thanks

TJ

The FireBee has all the hardware needed to support Midi, but the necessary soft-/firmware is not complete.

So the answer is: it could, but it doesn't, currently.

It's been two years since the last posting the thread, do I figured I would bump it since I am very interested in MIDI support and application compatibility for Hybrid Arts music programs.

How's MIDI support on the Firebee as we approach 2016?

[ryan]

When I get my Firebee (I preordered one from the recent batch) I intend on exploring this. There's a working ACIA in the MiST source code repository that apparently works well for MIDI, so it might just be a matter of porting that to work on the FPGA in the Firebee, patching the XBios and Bios calls to make MIDI traffic point to it, and then building a breakout cable. God knows what kind of software compatibility there'd be tho...

[frank.lukas]

Without a working Romport ?

[ryan]

In FPGA

[moebiusrising]

It's been two years since the last posting the thread, do I figured I would bump it since I am very interested in MIDI support and application compatibility for Hybrid Arts music programs.

How's MIDI support on the Firebee as we approach 2016?

I plan on owning both eventually (Firebee 2 is proposed to be 560 euros which (as of this date) brings me up to $860 CAD which is a little too rich for my blood, at present)

I have recently acquired a MiST FPGA with Atari ST core and MIDI option and can confirm both Cubase 3.01 (MCA) and the now freeware EditTrack Platinum 7.1 work quite good (there's been some lockup issues with EditTrack when deleting tracks which at present can only be circumvented by saving your project before you delete tracks).

Example here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaR5kkiBt8