MIDI cable problem

fireberd said:

Some of the MAudio equipment is not Vista/Win 7 compatible. I've seen postings on the Avid forum (the company that owns MAudio, ProTools, etc) about some equipment not having drivers for Vista/Win7.

Thanks. This is shaping up to be a real problem. I can't play my keyboard in MIDI mode right now, despite having a MIDI piano, a MIDI cable and MIDI software on several computers [Win7, XP]. I can't visit my local store and buy a new interface because as yet there is no guarantee that the Fast Track device that I want will be supported by Win7, this is despite posting on the M-Audio forum (no reply) and emailing generally on this topic.

Is this why a music college I walked into recently was laid out with wall-to-wall Macs I wonder?

Increasingly surprised by the limitations of Windows 7.

Thanks again,

Ric

Many thanks Fireberd,

Yes I have worked with Mac's, I wasn't entirely 'won over' at all - but I still remain curious.

I'm going to try a Roland MIDI cable which has Windows 7 drivers you can download (I checked ahead). I am buying this cable in person locally [UK] so that if it still doesn't work I can take it back in person.

Remain amazed that MIDI technology - being electronic - is not 'ABC' to the digital technology industry, it's almost as troublesome as trying to convert old ciné films to digital video format, when I would have thought that MIDI should be a 'plug in and play' scenario.

Still, I must kick my heels for a week now till the cable is in stock, sad but true. Never mind.

Best thanks,

Ric

Thanks Fireberd,

There's also the Focusrite SAFFIRE 6 USB but I already have an interface which handles electric, acoustic, bass guitar, electronic drums, quality vocals (xlr mic) and almost anything else I want to put through it. I really don't want to drop that for something exactly the same but with MIDI ports. So I will be keeping my fingers and toes crossed that Roland and its Win7 drivers do not let me down over their cable. I'm like a crashed computer at the moment with projects saved in limbo. I am not impressed, if I had some analogue synth backup it wouldn't be so bad but there is nothing. I have recorded the keyboard by way of line-in in the past, but it is not what the mix software likes - you sometimes get a ghostly blip on the track, this interface was never designed to handle keyboards that way, I could spend hours on a project and have to delete the whole thing because of some weird latency gemlin or something. This actually happened before I worked out how to use MIDI.

Thanks for the Focusrite heads up

Ric