I’m curious how many MIDEX 8 owners are still around.
I’ve been working on getting my old Steinberg MIDEX 8 running properly on modern Apple Silicon Macs, and the project has now reached a functional stage.
I currently have all 8 MIDI inputs and 8 MIDI outputs working through CoreMIDI, and I’ve successfully tested it with Cubase on M2 Pro and M4 Macs running current macOS versions.
MIDI IN and OUT are working with hardware instruments and VST instruments. There is still testing to be done — particularly SysEx, Program Change, MIDI realtime/clock, timing, hot-plug, sleep/wake and longer-term stability — before I’d consider it finished.
Before I spend significantly more time turning this into something that could actually be distributed, I’m trying to find out whether there are still enough MIDEX users who need this.
Does anyone here still own a MIDEX 8 that they stopped using because of the lack of modern macOS support?
If so, I’d be interested to know:
- which Mac you have
- which macOS version
- whether you still use Cubase
- whether your MIDEX 8 is currently sitting unused
I’d also be interested to hear from MIDEX 3 owners.
This isn’t a sales post — nothing is being sold and I’m not taking orders. I’m just trying to gauge whether there is enough real-world interest to justify finishing and properly testing the project.