Hi Peter,
>Sounds more like driver problems to me than anything else. Forget about
>the joystick MIDI adapter: this list has many archived messages of
>people who can't get their el cheapo joystick MIDI adapter to work with
>AN1xEdit.
Actually, I was wrong: AN1xEdit LIKES the joystick, and has never liked the Midiman. (I have always been able to use the Midiman for patch dumps to Cakewalk, though.)
FWIW to others, I was able to get AN1xEdit and the Midiman to play today under Win2K by changing the app to Win98 compatibility mode. I haven't fully rung it out, but at least it doesn't hang when I select the interface like before.
>I don't know the quality of the MIDIman Windows 2000 drivers, but a
>quick search on the web reveals that many people have problems with
>MIDIman and/or USB and Windows 2000, and many don't. It's probably the
>MIDIman driver being fussy about your USB interface.
>
>If Cakewalk was working before and now it isn't, there's something else
>wrong. There's no such thing as "I didn't change anything", but it's
>probably something that you wouldn't think would influence your USB
>interface.
Yeah, actually you're right. I was having problems and did a complete (and painful) clean install under Win2K recently. I didn't test Cakewalk extensively, but it did boot. No other software was changed after that, but CW stopped working. What I've come to find is that after the drivers are installed, CW will accept them for 3-4x, then stop working. It doesn't matter whether I use the latest drivers, or one step back; same issues. The sad part is that doing a clean install is supposed to fix things! I have no way to return to the "dirty" system -- which worked just fine with CW and the Midiman -- except by accident. :^(
>But using your music computer for other purposes is usually not a very
>good idea. You can't tune a computer for two different tasks. You
>install something for development purposes, and Cakewalk breaks. If it
>is an option, use a different computer. Hey, it could be a Mac for all I
>know. :)
Actually, I have a laptop 98 system that works fine for music. I'm just one of these people who wants it all! ;^)
Regards,
-BW
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