USB Midi Controllers Not Working On Windows 8.1 (SOLVED!) [Windows Update]

Anonymous
2013-12-13T08:10:58+00:00

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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Anonymous
2014-08-12T22:40:13+00:00

Description of the issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2014/01/21/windows-8-1-usb-midi-device-works-on-usb-2-0-port-doesn-t-work-on-usb-3-0-port.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

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

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Anonymous
2014-01-10T02:17:10+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-11T19:35:54+00:00

    HELP!!

    Im going insane, but still have some motivation left.

    My Vaio is installing the drivers from a 3rd party (ROLAND/SONAR) then as the setup wizard tells me to plug in the USB device (MIDI CONTROLLER V-STUDIO 100) and the installation will happen automatically, nothing happens! 

    I have tried again and again. The computer can see the device in the device manager but there is a ! and says drivers not installed.

    Please can you give me some support as in what do do to solve this problem?

    I'm using Windows 8.1

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-26T09:51:19+00:00

    Hello,

    First, I'm really sorry you're hitting this problem.

    To help investigate the problem could you identify the USB MIDI device, if you're using a third party audio/midi driver and the software you're using to interact with the controller?

    Keyboard Clavia Nord Stage 3

    Computer : Lenovo S20 Touch with Windows 8.1

    Softwares : Cubase, Sonar, Pizzicato.

    Connection : USB <------> USB

    The Nord Stage is recognized but... with a red cross and...

    NO MIDI Datas transmit to Lenovo S20-Touch  See the capture.jpg

    Same issue than donmeczblast      UNACCEPTABLE !!!!!!!!!!

    PLEASE, can you propose the good driver to resolve this bad issue !!!!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-18T03:49:22+00:00

    So this is still an issue. 

    WIN10PRO X64 - 1703 and does not recognize class compliant hardware. 

    Shame on Microsoft. 

    Shame on M-Audio for not releasing a Driver

                        ....(Hey they belong to Avid What do you expect)

    What am I going to do now....idk....another few hours of surfing the web to find an answer, man these smart people could have fixed the issue already.

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