Hi Lawrie: Thanks very much for the insight. Unfortunately, I have no obvious other processes running concurrently. I opened Task Manager and killed a number of processes I thought might be villians (anything associated with Media Player or Media Center), but still no luck. It could be almost anyprocess, or it could even be a service. So, I have two more things to ask of you:
1./ Do you know of any diagnostic tool or technique I could use to help me to identify the offending process or service? 2./ Do you know of any alternatives to "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" that I could download and use as a work-around?
Whenever I try to play a Noteworthy file I receive an error message ("MIDI Device Warning") stating: "One or more of your selected MIDI devices are failing to open.", "Would you like to go to the MIDI options tab to investigate?"
When I click on "Yes" and open this tab I see that the only "Available play device" listed is "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth." Selecting it causes this error, and de-selecting it causes another complaint: "No MIDI Play Devices."
I'm running NWC2 under Windows Vista (Home Premium), and I have no problem at all playing back MIDI files in Media Center and in MIDInight Express.
I've read about volume settings, but I have no volume setting for MIDI on the volume mixer, so that's not an option for me.
I've looked at lots of different solutions to this problem, but I have to admit that I'm stumped. Can anyone help?
