Problem detecting Recording device

[Thoraldus]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Howdy John,

Glad to know we're on the same wavelength here

Thanks for the added info. There are a couple of things we can check out now that we know Composer isn't seeing anything at all from your MIDI device.

On some devices, there is a switch, either physical or electronic (setting), for "MIDI mode". I'm not sure about your Kurzweil unit, but please do check in your user's manual to see if there is such a switch or setting. Some units have something like "Audio only", "MIDI on", "MIDI through" etc. If your unit has such a switch or setting (many users have had to make such settings because for some reason the default is "off"), try changing it.

If all seems to be as it should be and you're still not getting any recognition by Composer, then please try out a small program (not developed by us) called RedDot Forever, available free at http://sourceforge.net/projects/reddot/ This program's sole purpose in life is to record .mid files. If it detects and records from your Kurzweil, then we'll delve deeper into why Composer is not detecting it. If RedDot doesn't pickup your MIDI device, then we'll have to look more to the Kurzweil and/or the CME cable interface.

ttfn,
Sherry

Hi Sherry,

Here we are a year later and I have the same problem with Notation Musician 2.6 Trial. (see my other post today). I did try your suggestion to D/L RedDot Forever and it worked just fine. It recognized my UM-1 midi interface and I was able to record and playback from/to my Yamaha keyboard synth.

cheers,
Rick

[Sherry C]

Hi Rick,

Originally Posted by Thoraldus

Here we are a year later and I have the same problem with Notation Musician 2.6 Trial. (see my other post today). I did try your suggestion to D/L RedDot Forever and it worked just fine. It recognized my UM-1 midi interface and I was able to record and playback from/to my Yamaha keyboard synth.

If time flies when you're having fun, then I must be having a ball

I did see your other post, and you actually tried what I was going to suggest (reinstalling the UM 1 driver - I saw some other posts on other MIDI forums where that driver needed to be reinstalled in a number of cases, a couple of times for some). Since it's working with your other MIDI software, then the problem is obviously with Musician. I'm glad you were able to work around the issue using MidiYoke. Not sure how that works, as I didn't realize that the "virtual" cables would hook up to USB plug-in devices, but hey - I just learned something new

ttfn,
Sherry

[Thoraldus]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi Rick,



If time flies when you're having fun, then I must be having a ball

I did see your other post, and you actually tried what I was going to suggest (reinstalling the UM 1 driver - I saw some other posts on other MIDI forums where that driver needed to be reinstalled in a number of cases, a couple of times for some). Since it's working with your other MIDI software, then the problem is obviously with Musician. I'm glad you were able to work around the issue using MidiYoke. Not sure how that works, as I didn't realize that the "virtual" cables would hook up to USB plug-in devices, but hey - I just learned something new

ttfn,
Sherry

Hello Sherry,

MidiYoke works with MidiOx to provide virtual midi connections between midi software and physical midi devices. The software is pretty old but seems to work fine on my 64 bit Windows 7 system. Midi Yoke is used to connect any Windows MIDI Application output to another application's input. MIDI-OX is a multi-purpose tool: it is both a diagnostic tool and a System Exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI output driver or the MIDI Mapper.


I haven't a clue why your Notation software would see the virtual Midi Yoke ports ( 8 of them) and not see the UM-1.


cheers,

Rick