G-Type (1990s - 2005?)
McKenzie Electronics
MIDI and RS232 Control for samplers and outboard sound playback
(From McKenzie Electronics website)
A DOS based theatre sound show control program supporting:
- Cadac E-type and J-type consoles via serial protocols
- samplers (such as Akai S6000 etc) via MIDI
- hard Disk recorders (such as the Akai DR4, DR8 or DR16) via MMC
- mini disk players (Denon DN990, DN980) via serial protocols
- CD players (Denon DN951) via serial protocols
- other devices by simple relay closure
Events can be triggered by
- the gameport fire button
- the keyboard
- the keypad on Cadac consoles
- MIDI timecode
- timed follow-on
Events can be
- static events such as CD start, Minidisk cue up, relay closure or pulse
- change of Cadac desk state
- MIDI sequences
MIDI sequences can be
- recorded from a keyboard or sequencer
- imported from a standard MIDI file edited as a list of MIDI events
A IBM compatible PC with:
- 166MHz 486 or better
- MSDOS 6.22 or Novell Dos 7
- 16M RAM or more
- Roland MPU401 or compatible MIDI card
- Serial ports with individual IRQs
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