Manual for Mosaic 1.58

[apanacci]

Just thru mine out a few weeks ago !

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Have they picked up the garbage yet...?

[ramadev]

I actually used Mosaic last year. I had some ancient charts that I'd done in Mosaic, and I still have a PowerBook that boots in Classic mode (OS9). After trying to export the files in a format that Sibelius can understand, I determined a few things:

1) It is quicker and easier to redo a chart from scratch than it is to make all the necessary corrections in Sibelius after exporting a MIDI file from Mosaic.

2) The easiest way to get an intact chart out of Mosaic is to take a screenshot of it and print it as a jpg. (My printer won't talk to OS9.)

3) Mosaic is really good at opening and editing Mosaic files, but not much else.

4) Mosaic and OS9 crash. A lot.

Several years back I called tech support to say that my Mosaic key disk wasn't working any more, and MOTU sent me a Mosaic 1.58 installation CD with a new code.

I also have an old PowerBook 540i that I nearly took to electronic recycling last year, but I decided to see if it would boot up...and it did! (And besides Mosaic, it has Crystal Quest on it; perhaps someday I'll have time to play it...no, probably not.)

And somewhere I have floppies with OS 4, 5 and 6.0.7, if anyone needs those.

Now I'll dig out my Mac Plus and find out if it'll boot up, or if I should turn it into a goldfish tank...

[mikehalloran]

Export the .jpg, open it in OS X and convert to .pdf.

You can now open it either in SmartScore X2 Pro or PhotoScore Ultimate that talks to Sibelius. Either way, you can now create a MusicXML file that Sibelius can read.

My understanding is that SSX works better for Finale and PhotoScore Ultimate is better for Sibelius – lite versions are bundled with each. In both cases, the "lite" versions do not support full MusicXML such as expressions and lyrics. The Pro/Ultimate versions do.

I use SmartScore X2 Pro with Finale.

I still have a PowerBook that boots in Classic mode (OS9).

You have to checkout Macintosh Garden if you don't know it already:
http://macintoshgarden.org/

[Shooshie]

I would NEVER boot Mosaic again, not because it was a bad app, but because going back to OS9 is depressing. And, because those old computers were so slow. And because Mosaic isn't Sibelius, which I use now.

That said, I did create a lot of nice scores in Mosaic, but it was because that's what I had. And it beat the pants off of Professional Composer, the first engraving software for the Mac, and the first high-resolution engraving software, ever.

I found some old scores made in Composer a week or so ago, and they were all pasted up with symbols, slurs, ties, titles, and other text. I had printed up pages of those things, made in MacDraw, mostly, which I cut out with scissors and literally pasted on my score. It made a nice looking score, but the only reason it was acceptable was because the alternative was going back to pen and paper, where transposing the key meant starting over.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I wonder if, in 50 years, people will be booting into OS 7 to 9 the way they like to drive 1960s cars now? I won't be here to find out. Lol

[Shooshie]

I wonder if, in 50 years, people will be booting into OS 7 to 9 the way they like to drive 1960s cars now? I won't be here to find out. Lol

Some spartan, masochistic, self-denial cult would probably get into that. "OH... look at how I have to go up to the arrow to scroll up, and down to the other arrow to scroll down. The pain of moving my wrist that many times is invigorating!"

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Dude, that's because you need a vintage mouse without a scroll wheel. They had them in those days. Good luck finding one!

[Shooshie]

Dude, that's because you need a vintage mouse without a scroll wheel. They had them in those days. Good luck finding one!

Hehehe... I still have my hockey puck mouse. Well, it was my daughter's, but when her gorgeous Tangerine iMac bit the dust in a lightning storm, I didn't throw it out.

What am I talking about? I have a warehouse FULL of old Macs. I have never thrown one out. Ever! I even have the original 128K Mac with the signatures on the inside.

Shoosh

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I sold off everything but my old 7500 running OS 7.5.1. Still have about 6 serial super-sized Apple keyboards and a few serial mice. Some SCSI stuff and lord knows what else. Fact is, I do miss my Atari and SMPTE Track. It was the DP of it's day on that machine. Now where did I put that JL Cooper PPS-100?