Whooaa...Great News:) Keep up the good work:)

Work like this is much appreciated even if I can't appreciate it directly
(ie: I don't have much in the way of MIDI equipment anymore).

Many Thanks for your great efforts!

Cheers,
Bean.

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OS4.1 + SAM Flex
RIP my A1XE.. that used to have an appetite for batteries!

The comunity thanks you

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ikir

I'm still a 56k-modem user, so I would like to have splitted files for
downloading. For example all the camd drivers don't need to be in the main
archive, as I have them already.

Hello again,
I see, 8,2 MB is a very big file for a 56k-modem. So I've made a update archive, which only contains the most recent files and no installer.

Download it here:
BnPOS4_06_update.lha

I'll make tomorrow some small archive for different stuff, so it maybe possible for the users to choose, what he want to download.

Kindly regards
Alfred

Excellent news. Great work.

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AmigaClyde

µA1-C 750GX@800 using OS4.1

thanks Alfred,
the community has to thank you for your enthusiasm and effort to bring BnP to OS4. Keep up the good work, iam sure you will find enough ppl being grateful for ywhat you have delivered them !


Cheers,
IceDragon.

clickable link for lazy guys

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ikir

Thank you Alfred.

This is outstanding. I have played 48 MIDI channels on my A1 with my UM-880 interface, so far. I have some songs that need the MIDI in and out tools changed, have to get to work.

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Amiga user since 1985.

Wow!
Fun times for me..
I've been working too hard, now it's time to play.
I can't think of a better way to do it.

Thanks again Alfred, you are appreciated.
Lyle Hazelwood

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@Lylehaze

No fun times for you yet my friend :)

@Alfred

Really great news. B&P is getting better

Great to see it being improved!.... It's one of those really classic apps after all!
Keep it up!

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AOS4 Betatester, Peg2, G4@1ghz, Radeon 9250 256mb, 1gb RAM.

http://www.asciiarena.com
http://www.uprough.net

This is surely appreciated. Also break up for 56k modem which I am still using.

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Moxee
AmigaOne X1000
AmigaOne XE G4
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Thank you Alfred!

Now where is that PayPal "Donate" button?

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AlexC's free OS4 software collection

AmigaOne XE/X1000/X5000/UAE-PPC OS4 laptop/X-10 Home Automation

@alfa
Thank you Alfred for this great port.

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AmigaOne X1000 1,8 Ghz/2 GB Ram + Radeon 6670 2 GB + AmigaOS4.1
A4000T CyberstormPPC 604e-200Mhz/060/128MB+CybervisionPPC 8MB + AmigaOS4
and anymore other Amigas...

Now that is good news. Congrats and well done to all involved.

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Cthulhu Saves.

I've never really used MIDI but thought I'd install this program just to take a look. I have a few comments about the installation and program.

The Installer doesn't seem to do any version checking before installing some of the drivers etc. That's a big no-no for an Amiga install script. Maybe someone else could take a look at the Install to see what it's doing. Manual install instructions would be nice for paranoid people who don't trust installers (Many Aminet programs have installers that will overwrite newer libs etc. with outdated ones).

The program stops with no indication of what has failed if it can't load a driver in DEVS:MIDI. Only the Sashimi serial debug output informed me of the problem. I think the program should just load the drivers it needs and recognizes since other programs might put special drivers in the same directory.

Why in the world is the gui directory stored as an lha archive and extracted to RAM: when the program opens?? The program has many megabytes of support files so what is gained by compressing 359958 bytes of gui data and decrunching it to ram: every time the program is run? Just put the gui directory in the BarsnPipes directory. I think OS4 can load it quickly enough from disk.

If I run the program and quit, I can't run the program a second time.
If this is simply because I haven't read the docs ignore this one.

I thought I might be able to load one of the songs and play it using AHI sound. Maybe I need to change some setting before I get sound. Can someone give me a quick howto just to get one of the songs to play. Hearing some sound would certainly encourage me to read the docs and explore the program a little further. I using a µA1.

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X1000 with 2GB memory & OS4.1FE

@Xenic

I think that the main reason that it does some of those things is because it is a Beta version of the program.

There has never been audio associated with Bars and Pipes. Bars and Pipes is a MIDI sequencer. It can record, edit and playback MIDI sequences. It requires a MIDI instrument (synthesizer, sound module, drum machine) to make the sound. As far as I know, at this time there is no OS4 native software synthesizer that can be played by MIDI.

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Amiga user since 1985.

Hi Xenic, ... I don't know your name

I'm very sorry, that you have had such a trouble with BarsnPipes. But you show me, whats going on, if a curious men, who never ever had worked with BarsnPipes before, want to try out BarsnPipes.

The installer don't check the version of the drivers ... thats correct, but this is not a fault, because the archive contains the latest (most recent - the best) available drivers.

It's right ... no manual installation instructions are available ... I'll change this ...

The question about the gui:
BarsnPipes (like you have seen) has many many gadgets. The most of them are rendered with small pics. All these pics are loaded from outside from the GUI-directory, which is (since ver.0.6) a lha-crunched archive. The GUI-dir contains 475(!) small pictures files. The harddisk is working any seconds to load all the files. So I decided (to shorten this loading time dramatically) to make this deal with the lha-archive.

You only can run the program once, if
- the programs runs already
- the shutdown of the program fails by any reason

Like another friend already mentioned:
BarsnPipes is a MIDI-sequencer.
Unfortunately: If you don't own a MIDI-device (Keyboard, Synthesizer, Expander or similar) BarsnPipes isn't useable for you - at the moment. This maybe changed in the future, when someone writes a software-synthesizer for OS4.

And also: BarsnPipes OS4 is really in a beta-state. Never ever beta-versions are complete and bugfree ... is there any program available, which is complete and bugfree ????

Sorry, if you haven't any MIDI-equipment, and if you not so familiary in making music, I guess, it will be not the best choice, to try to work with BarsnPipes.

Nevertheless ... beat me - but this is my conviction ... BarsnPipes IS the best Multimedia-MIDI-sequencer, which was ever made for AMIGA-style computers.
(Is there anywhere a better MIDI-sequencer ???)
Only by this reason I give my heart-blood into this project. I don't believe, that I would do this, if there would be a better possibility, like BarsnPipes.

If you only want to make fast some noices or grooves, BarsnPipes seems not to be the best tool for you. But this maybe changed ...

Kindly
Alfred

It doesn't work for me.
When I got Lyles most resent camd-driver, i could use the prokeys as a midikeyboard and play from Prokeys88 USB-in to the UNO USB-out.
But since the upgrade, that doesn't work.
And not multiple outs either.

BTW why is it that you can see both midi ins and midi outs in the midi-out tool (yes I know, it is a beta ;).

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Ralf.
Amigaone G4 XE / AOs4 beta update4
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