Network syncing between a G4 ibook and a laptop PC

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Hello all,

Been searching for network syncing capabilities but only found how to sync using OSX to OSX. Is it possible to sync over ethernet cables (i.e. not midi)from a PC laptop to an ibook? The PC has an midi soundcard but the ibook is using its own internal soundcard hence no midi interface. I'd rather not buy a midi interface but I guess I have to if there;s no other way.

Any ideas?

[Michael-SW]

There is no way to directly sync MIDI to a PC over ethernet. You need an application such as MIDIOverLAN (mac and PC versions available but costs $130!)

http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm

There is also ipMIDI which is a bit cheaper but it is PC only, so it won't help you.

http://www.nerds.de/

[hambone1]

I've been down the etnernet road. Save yourself a lot of grief and get a cheap USB MIDI interface.

[crustrock]

Hi!

Check out this:
http://midishare.sourceforge.net/

It's more than free but open source ..

You are not only able to sync Mac OS X with Windows with Linux.
You can create sort of "virtual" midi devices which are connected
over LAN (or WAN ..).

Cheers
Crustrock

[adsr]

Thanks guys, I think I'll go down the route of buying a midi interface. Seems much easier.

[Michael-SW]

In defense of MIDIOverLAN, I've been playing around with it in a studio. It was bloody amazing. Rock solid, almost no latency what so ever, a snap to set up.

Ran Live on two PCs - sync worked extremely well. But the price...