midi trouble with windows 10

2016-01-04 06:12 am

New forum user here, been with NWC since '98. If this has already been discussed and figured out, please let me know. I recently upgraded to windows 10, and after a few weeks of the computer freezing up requiring a hard shutdown and reboot, all the midi ability stopped. The computer runs more smoothly now, but I can't play midi, record, or in any other way use midi. When I click 'play', a warning window pops up saying "One or more of your selected midi devices are failing to open. Would you like to go to the midi options tab to investigate?" I click Yes. The midi tab shows Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth in the field for "Devices used by play back", where it is supposed to be. I click OK. I click Play again, and an alert pops up at the bottom of the screen saying "Alert #1: Upgrade Check Failed: Could not connect to noteworthycomposer.com"
I dabbled in the Microsoft Knowledge Base regarding this, and couldn't get any answers except to try using CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth. I downloaded it and I get the same result. It is also listed in the field for "Devices used by play back".
The same midi problem happened when I upgraded another machine to windows 10, except much more promptly, not several weeks later.
Does anyone have a solution? Many thanks!

Re: midi trouble with windows 10

Reply #1 – 2016-01-04 06:26 am

You might look at: Windows 10: Configuring Play in Version 2.51a (and older) on NoteWorthy's blog.

Re: midi trouble with windows 10

Reply #2 – 2016-01-04 07:24 am

Ha! Haha! That worked! I saw something about that earlier, and I thought I tried it without success. But it worked this time. Thank you.

Re: midi trouble with windows 10

Reply #3 – 2016-01-04 07:54 am

Quote from: nschreiner – 2016-01-04 06:12 am

I recently upgraded to windows 10

Two points:

NWC 2.75 should not suffer from the GS Wavetable Synth problems that were part of the earlier Windows 10 releases.
In my tests, Microsoft appears to have fixed the Windows 10 MIDI problems as of build 10586.