Can anyone help with this MIDI issue please

[ZeroZero]

Hi I have a new MIDI drumkit in my studio (Traps E440) . As my (single) MIDI input on my saffire 56 Audio interface is used for a keyboard I need to get another MIDI in.

I bought a MIDI to USB cable from Ebay. It did not come with a munfactures name but sports a trble clef as a logo. What I have found out is thaqt it does not work out of the box with my Win 7 64 bit PC. I think this is a device driver issue and wonder if anyone could help me find the deivce driver (its somewhere in system devices but where?) or find some other way of solving the issue.

I posted before but did not get resolution

Any ideas please?

Zero
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[DaveFry]

Does your keyboard have a Midi Thru socket ?
If you could put all your Midi devices through the same input on your Saffire interface it would eliminate any driver and asio conflicts to start with .
Failing that find a Midi junction box which you could connect all your Midi devices to and then run the single output from the box into the Midi input of the Saffire .
Failing THAT , get a Cakewalk UM-1G or 2G (or 3G) , they work with Windows 7 x64 .

If you can't tell which of the USB devices in the Windows Device Manager might be using an out-of-date driver ,then why not update them all ? (Right-click each entry in turn and select update driver ) !
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[ZapAxe]

Yeah, sounds like it may be a driver issue. In my own experience with my Aardvark Q10 sound card having only one midi In/Out and my Alesis keyboard is plugged in to that...when I want to plug in my customized Yamaha DTXpress drum kit, I have to either swap the midi cables to my drum kit, or connect via a mini serial cable (both on the drum module and my motherboard) but I must have the special Yamaha drivers to make this work, and it works great.
Another solution I use is that I bought a 2nd Aardvark sound card, an Aark 24 which uses the same drivers as my Q10 and I just plug the e-drum kit's module via midi into that and leave my keyboard's midi in my Q10...this way I don't have to switch midi cables or switch between my Aardvark & Yamaha drivers...which wouldn't be THAT bad as my midi usages are not so busy. In addition the use of both cards by a single manufacturer (which Aardvark supports - or did since they're now out of business - up to 4 simultanious cards) gives me BUTTLOADS of audio inputs so I can leave eveything I own plugged in and ready to go.
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[ZeroZero]

thanks all, I( might just go and buy the cakewalk, but vI think its a driver issue on my present gener4ic USB/MIDI cable.

"Why don't I just update them all?"


Becuase I think Windows has installed a 32 bit driver and this is the problem. If I just update then it will update the 32 bit driver. I heard soemwhere on the net you must first delete the driver then find using windows. I dont want to do this tyo the wrong driver so I need to be able to track it down somehow.
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[midimaddness]

Maybe just go out and spend $60 or $70 on a Midisport 2x2? Problem solved! mm
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[ZeroZero]

Thanks for the help guys - just got it working! Olny one slight issue...

In Device set up / MIDI port set up, although the device is there., I cant seem to add it to the column marked "IN ALL MIDI INPUTS"

Dont know why , clicking is not working.
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[ZeroZero]

Got it all working now - more luck than judgement I have no ideaq what went wrong!

thanks for the help guys. Apprec ated
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Cubase 5 64 bit, Core i7 920, 12 gig, Asus 6pt v2 mobo, Win 7 64 Ult, Liquid Saffire 56. Surround Sound set up (Reveals). EWQLS Orch Plat, Symphonic Choirs, Kontakt 3, Halion 3.5 64 bit, TruePianos, GPO, Westgate Oboe, The Stradivari, Gofrilla, British rail sandwich circa 1953, VSL Orchestral Strings 1, EWQL Orch Gold, BFD2, Absynth 4 Omnisphere, Trilogy, RMX IV, numerous synths and a whole load of outboard -sax player really.