It looks like MIDI ports on soundcards don't work anymore in Vista.
https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=716672&SiteID=17
I just out in an old SBLive! Value in my computer and the sound drivers where found but it doesn't find any drivers for the MIDI port.]
Creative says that it's not going to bother updating the drivers for these old cards anyway.
I don't care about the sound output of this card (I was going to disable it anyway) I just want the MIDI.
Is there no hope in Vista 32bit?
Do people use USB MIDI adapters in Vista?
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julianbenjamin
Giggity
Creative Labs is just a mess. I bought a Audigy 2 Platinum EX for around $400, but if I upgrade to Vista, DVD-Audio, Dolby DTS Decoding, EAX, Midi, 6.1 Sound and SPDIF are all disabled. However, if I pay $9.99, I can get EAX to work. And for the rest, I have to buy their latest sound card, because that's what they want you to do.
So I put that card back in an XP box, and am using an onboard realtek card that supports all those features except for DVD-Audio for no extra charge.
Only advice I can give is not to buy anything from them; when their next card comes out, and a new version of Windows comes out, they'll decide again to drop support and instead force you to buy yet another sound card to get the features you've already paid for. -
I've read about Creative's strange decisions with Vista and the SBLive! was just a card I had laying around and I thought I might as well try it out to see if the MIDI would work. I had no intention of using the actual audio part of the card.
I'm going to post something in the Cakewalk forum and see what those people are using. It would be nice if the Asus Xonar D2 wasn't so expensive.
I wish this one had Vista support
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496-main.html -
CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
dentaku wrote:I've read about Creative's strange decisions with Vista and the SBLive! was just a card I had laying around and I thought I might as well try it out to see if the MIDI would work. I had no intention of using the actual audio part of the card.
I'm going to post something in the Cakewalk forum and see what those people are using. It would be nice if the Asus Xonar D2 wasn't so expensive.
I wish this one had Vista support
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496-main.html
It doesn't? M-Audio's drivers site lists a driver for vista (updated 12 Dec 2007)... don't know if it actually works or not, though.
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vesuvius
Count Orlock
Creative soundard (old SB LIve digital card) causes my pc to blue screen. I then need to restart it dozens of times before it starts to work again.
The best only way to avoid problems with Vista is to buy/use Vista approved hardware. Saves time and effort but is expensive. -
CannotResolveSymbol wrote:
It doesn't? M-Audio's drivers site lists a driver for vista (updated 12 Dec 2007)... don't know if it actually works or not, though.
Thanks for pointing that out. The driver page calls it the Delta Audiophile 2496 so it made it hard to find and I don't know if I checked the site since Dec. 17 anyway.
I'll have to ask around on some forums to see if anyone has good results. I don't know if I trust the first revision of a driver on a new OS of an older product.
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