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Hello, I have a problem (see subject above).
I have been trying to fix it on my own but nothing seems to work.
I have never had this issue before and I have been Producing music since XP.
On Windows 8 my midi controllers worked just fine. As soon as I updated via windows store, My controllers have become unresponsive.
I have checked (And updated!) under device manager all of the Universal Serial Bus Drivers.
Everything seems to be working fine there, except when running any DAW (digital audio workstation) such as: FL Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Ableton, Ripper, Studio One, Reason.
The midi controllers show up as available but do not send or receive any midi messages.
Both my external Audio Interfaces work as far as Outputting sound in both Directwave and ASIO.
But midi does not.
PLEASE HELP, I do not EVER wanna be a MAC fanboy... but this Windows 8.1 update is pushing me away.
No Midi Controllers = No New music from me = Shopping around for a new system pretty soon :(
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Description of the issue:
Fix for this issue is in August update released this morning. Please install update. With this fix, you don't have to apply the registry setting to workaround the problem.
www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx for x86 systems.
www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx for x64 systems.
-Eliyas
We were able to repro the issue with TEXTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD. (USB\VID_15CA&PID_0101 ) MIDI device. This device works when connected to 2.0 but not on 3.0 port. We debugged the issue and found the regression.
The 3.0 host controller driver in Windows 8.1 is forwarding a MSOS descriptor query to the device and that some how causes the device to get confused. The interesting part is that the even though the device is not fully functional, it doesn't fail any I/O. So from looking at the bus trace, every thing looks good. It is this one query that is sent during initialization causes the device to sulk, and then it never internally recovers.
Windows 8 doesn't send this query.
Another thing to note is that this issue manifest only for composite devices.
Fortunately there is a registry override to inform the core USB stack to not send this query. So I request you to apply the registry setting for now to workaround the issue. We will try to get this fix added to a future update and roll it out widely.
Get the VID/PID/REV ID of the device from the device manager. For example, for the device I'm using the VID/PID/REV values are 15CA/0101/F110. With that, create the following registry entry (this registry key might have been already created in some case) and set the "osvc" value to 00 00.
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbflags\15CA0101F110\
REG_BINARY “osvc” = 00 00
Unplug and replug the device.
Let me know the results.
Having the same issue as well. Brand new Dell laptop with Windows 8.1 factory install.
Medeli m10 keyboard connected via USB. The keyboard is auto detected by Windows 8.1 as a "Medeli e-drum". Neither midi in nor midi out works. The same keyboard is auto detected and works fine in XP, Vista and in Windows 7. Haven't tried Windows 8 yet but the Medeli web site says it is supported in Windows 8.
Is there any way of getting this working without having to install Windows 8 or Windows 7? It seems I'm not alone having these issues.
Good call, Jan!
I might do the same. I was very happy with W7.
In fact this is just my travel laptop, which is newer and of course came with W8.
My regular Studio PC is Windows 7 and never has any issues.
I am on a long road trip so I rely on this laptop for now.
Good to hear you were able to solve some issues and are back at work :)
Cheers!
Hi Trumpet Grrrl
Yes indeed, all Machines with Windows 8 who upgraded to Windows 8.1 have the capability to go into "Recover" and roll back to Windows 8.
Charms Bar/ Settings / Change PC Settings / Update and Recovery
All your personal files (ie Photos, Music, Documents) will be safe. However, if you are a Power User and have hundreds of Programs, and thousands of utilities (ie Plugins, Synths, Libraries) such as myself.... get ready for a "fun" week re-installing all your tools.
But yes ma'am, you are right. People get your google on. :)
Cheers n' thanx for contributing.
