I had the same problem with my Creative Audigy card trying to transfer sysex to/from my AN1X with my old gameport to MIDI cable. I bought a cheap USB to MIDI cable from Amazon market place (I think it was), and that worked just fine. I believe gameport cable may have worked ok when routed through my Micron, but not sure now. There was another problem which the Micron routing definitely fixed, and that was stuck notes.
Interestingly, I later tried using the same USB cable to transfer sysex data to/from an old Prophet 600 (first ever MIDI instrument, apparently...), and that would ∗not∗ work with the USB cable, but it ∗did∗ work with the gameport one! Oh, and sending patches to the Micron works fine with the gameport cable (never tried it with the USB cable.) BTW: This is all on Windows XP.
--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "john_merrit_70" <johnmerrit.merrit@...> wrote:
>
> What about my old Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Platinum with the Live! Drive add-on ?
>
> I currently have this sitting in my old P4 3.2Ghz, 4Gb Ram, WinXP SP3, full creative drivers & suite installed.
> Connected my AN1x via my old midi cables to the Live! Drive, installed the AN1x editor, Midi-OX, Bome's SendSX, and none of them could send any sysex files to my AN1x.
>
> In Midi-OX, I could see midi messages being sent, I can use the keyboard in any DAW package as a controller, yet I cannot seem to get the AN1x to receive custom sound sets.
>
> Is there any special thing I need to do/setup on the AN1x ?
> I have all the channels on 1, Device = ALL, etc..
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Bruno <brunorc@> wrote:
> >
> > If you have more synths, you would benefit from having a proper MIDI
> > interface. Then your options depend on your operating system - if you have
> > a Mac, you must use some USB hardware. On Windows you can still get one of
> > those serial (and maybe parallel as well) port based interfaces, and get
> > the USB<->appropriate_port adapter.
> >
> > There are some USB devices from eMagic, which you can spot every now on
> > eBay:
> > - Unitor8 MK II - 8/8 MIDI ports, comes with fancy SMPTE sync, which you
> > don't need
> > - AMT8 - 8/8 MIDI ports, no fancy stuff
> > - AMT4 - 4/4 MIDI ports, no fancy stuff
> > - MOTU MIDI Express, I think there's a model with USB
> >
> > Those are serial based, but worked OK on my Windows machines:
> > - Unitor8 MKI - 8/8 MIDI ports, SMPTE
> > - Midiman BiPort - 2 IN/4 OUT, SMPTE
> >
> > Older versions of MOTU MIDI Express were connected thru parallel port, but
> > I never used one, so no first-hand knowledge here.
> >
> > Current prices for Unitor8/AMT8 are around 70-100 EUR, and sometimes one
> > can get Unitor8 MK I for 50 EUR. For bigger setups they are awesome, since
> > you can stack them with Mac printer/serial cables.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Bruno
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/6/5 DKTronics70 . <johnmerrit.merrit@>
> >
> > > Can anyone please recommend a decent USB to Midi cable that works with the
> > > AN1x ?
> > >
> > > I have one of those cheap Chinese imports from Amazon, it works in midi
> > > software, DAW software, etc.. but
> > > it doesn't seem to support the full Midi feature set, and so won't allow
> > > the AN1x to receive sysex files, or custom-sound
> > > midi files.
> > >
> > > Any help most appreciated.
> > >
> > > John.
> > >
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