Re: Cannot Open Midi Device
Reply #3 –
G'day Michael,
haven't played with vista yet so I don't have any particular suggestions as to what may be running... Nor do I know sure fire way of finding out what may be opening the synth.
Can you not "de tune" the user interface? Reduce the "wow" as m$ would have it... Perhaps there is something there that is opening the MIDI synth...
Unfortunately, unless you have a sound card with a hardware synth I'm not sure I can suggest alternatives. The only softsynths I'm aware of do not say they are suitable for vista - they may work but I don't know...
If you check out "synthfont" there may be a vista version - you'll also need a "virtual MIDI cable" like MIDIYoke (will also need to be vista compatible) and a soundfont to load into synthfont. This will at least give you an alternative synthesizer, if it works...
Regardless of the above, there must be something opening the MIDI synth... Startup as "vanilla" as you can, load nothing you can avoid and see what happens.