[mike connelly]

"why are we being forced to use an obsolete midi system?"

Because digi is putting their efforts into midi support for OSX?

How on earth do you know this?"

I don't "know" this. Notice the question mark in my response. But since A) all midi drivers will need to be redone for X and B) digi has announced that they're working on X support now, it's not an outlandish theory.

Mike