Wither Natami?

[Ral-Clan]

A toast to my trusty old A2500 (R.I.P.) which served me well for 12 years as the centre of my home music recording setup.  This week a cascading failure beginning in the A2091 lead to the death of the card, a CD burner and hard drive.  

I knew this day would eventually come.  It will take much work to get the setup back to where I initially had it.  Even then, due to the age of the hardware, it could fail again at any moment.

Just an encouragement to those who are developing the Natami and A-Clone.  We desperately need fresh, healthy new Amiga clone hardware, soon.  Emulation is great, but for doing MIDI work where timing is everything, running straight on native hardware just can't be beat.

I'll buy the first clone that can reliable meet or exceed the capabilities of my old A2000/040/32MB RAM.

[Ral-Clan]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly when you state that "MIDI is sloppy".  Do you mean that MIDI is a very loose format, so it doesn't matter what you run it on?  Or are you saying that MIDI under Amiga Emulation on a PC is so sloppy in timing that it's crap?

What MIDI software are you running in UAE on the PC?  How is the timing via the MIDI port?  What sort of PC MIDI interface are you using (game port?  USB) that works with Amiga emulation?

I want to be able to run Bars & Pipes and OctaMED, mainly, as good as they run on a real Amiga.

Just as an aside.  Can you run Amiga MIDI apps under emulation and have them run in sync with PC multi-tracking apps?  i.e. use Bars & Pipes in UAE and have ProTools running on the PC side, and have the two sync up?