Loopback MIDI Driver
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Learn how to setup a Loopback MIDI Driver for sending MIDI data from HN2 to other software running on your computer.
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Learn how to setup a Loopback MIDI Driver for sending MIDI data from HN2 to other software running on your computer.
Unhandled exception: Permission denied ("/Library/Application Support/ Harmony Navigator 2/Updates/setup.db.temp)
If you get this error message when trying to open HN2 for the first time, a recent OS update or other installer has probably messed with system folder permissions. This is how to fix it:
Starting with OS X Mavericks (10.9) Apple unexpectedly changed things with launch services that keep HN1 (Harmony Navigator Version 1) from starting on newer versions of OS X. Since Apple also changed its MIDI system, the output volume of the internal QuickTime synthesizer became extremely silent.
Affects OS X 10.8 and Later: You may see a message warning you that the downloaded package "is not from an identified developer". You can safely ignore it. Cognitone uses a packaging method (multiple packages bundled) that is currently not recognized by Gatekeeper. The actual software being installed is properly digitally signed and registered with Apple.
This message indicates that one or more folders on your Mac have restrictive permissions that hinder Synfire from looking up system information. On a clean OS X installation, this should not happen. For whatever reason, the default permissions were modified on your system. A -5000 error is an Apple OS X message that is not solely related to Synfire. It can occur with any application.
Due to some undocumented changes since OS X Lion (10.7) the built-in QuickTime GM Synth turned extremely low in volume and got noisy and even a bit distorted.
If you happen to get the message "You can't open the application because it may be damaged or incomplete" when starting HN2 or Synfire Pro on a Mac, you should do the following:
We do not know yet why this happens in the first place, but it seems to happen to a few users every now and then. We were unable to reproduce the message on any of our Macs.
This shell script fixes file and folder permissions in the Propellerhead Software folder. Use this in case some other software installer has messed with the permissions and you can no longer install or update Synfire Pro. This script is meant as a workaround until we will have changed the installer to ask you for admin privileges and make these modifications automatically.
Read this if you are having problems installing a Cognitone product (earlier than HN2 version 2.5 or Synfire Pro version 1.5 only) on your Mac (solution applies to error messages "The MIDI subsystem configuration failed" and "Please make sure Macintosh HD can be written to by the current user").
