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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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