Re: Is there a MIDI MCE Conflict???

Mr. Brown wrote:
I cannot get my MIDI device to function using my laptop. Here's the story:

I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows MCE installed on it. It's the Satellite A105-S4134. I am a music teacher and I am trying to use a MIDI keyboard with my laptop but I can't seem to get it to function with my music composition software (Sybellius).

Here's what I did: I inserted my USB cable into my keyboard which has a USB port on it and then inserted it into my laptop. I then powered on the keyboard and Windows did it's typical "new device detected" deal. It then automatically installs the driver and calls it a "USB Audio Device." I'm not sure if that's right because it is a MIDI device... Anyway, after that the software program I use tells me that it does not detect any MIDI devices. I've looked over the softwares manuals, tutorial vidoes, everything serveral times, it is NOT the software program.

Here's what I'm thinking:
a.) My sound card doesn't support MIDI input (I called Toshiba about this and they just did the typical, "lets see if your sound card is working..." >< I don't know how to tell if it does or not.
b.) Windows Media sucks and I need XP (easy fix because my workplace offers this to me for free, yay for me!)
c.) The wrong driver is installed. If this is the case, I have no idea how to change this and would appreciate some explanation on how to install and find the appropriate one. I already did the "update driver" option and windows said this is the latest Driver.

Please help! And don't tell me it's a.) :/

The only thing that occurs to me is that the MIDI device may
be "attached" to an MCE process, making it unavailable to your
MIDI program.

It would be nice if you could easily see what processes are
"connected" to a device...

You might try again after exiting Media Center, but that leaves
some Media Center processes still running.

-michael

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