by francois » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:12 pm
One important thing to keep in mind with Windows and MIDI drivers. You are limited to having 10, numbered from mid0 to mid9 in the registry. 10 seems quite a lot doesn't it ? However, you soon realise that you can easily reach that limit, because each time you plug a USB MIDI instrument on a USB port, it installs a driver for it. So if you plug your Solaris on three different ports, you'd have 3 slots out of the 10 taken.
If you have a problem with a MIDI driver not installing properly, or seemingly installing properly but not working, check the control panel Sounds, then Hardware tab, MIDI driver concerned, properties. If you see a message that says "driver installed properly but not functioning", you know there is a problem somewhere.
The best thing to do is to uninstall the MIDI drivers. One of the best utilities for this is the latest Korg USB driver. It comes with a great uninstall utility which gives you the option of uninstalling other MIDI drivers, not just the Korg one. So you could install that and then remove everything with the Korg unsintall program. Then, restart your PC and start afresh with the driver you want to use. With the Solaris, there is none as such. You should get a generic USB Audio Driver.
Further reading on this can be found at:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar05/a ... sician.htm
Now, if someone can have a go at explaining how you troubleshoot and uninstall MIDI drivers on OSX, feel free to chime in !
One important thing to keep in mind with Windows and MIDI drivers. You are limited to having 10, numbered from mid0 to mid9 in the registry. 10 seems quite a lot doesn't it ? However, you soon realise that you can easily reach that limit, because each time you plug a USB MIDI instrument on a USB port, it installs a driver for it. So if you plug your Solaris on three different ports, you'd have 3 slots out of the 10 taken.
If you have a problem with a MIDI driver not installing properly, or seemingly installing properly but not working, check the control panel Sounds, then Hardware tab, MIDI driver concerned, properties. If you see a message that says "driver installed properly but not functioning", you know there is a problem somewhere.
The best thing to do is to uninstall the MIDI drivers. One of the best utilities for this is the latest Korg USB driver. It comes with a great uninstall utility which gives you the option of uninstalling other MIDI drivers, not just the Korg one. So you could install that and then remove everything with the Korg unsintall program. Then, restart your PC and start afresh with the driver you want to use. With the Solaris, there is none as such. You should get a generic USB Audio Driver.
Further reading on this can be found at:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar05/articles/pcmusician.htm
Now, if someone can have a go at explaining how you troubleshoot and uninstall MIDI drivers on OSX, feel free to chime in !