Disklavier

Greetings Matthew,

Edirol UM1-EX by Roland also works on Vista. I have had few problems with MIDI on Vista it is just the Windowzmediaplayer on Vista that is trouble.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:44:44 PM, you wrote:
> No, I bought a no-name brand from ebay.  It was about $15 and it is
> purple.  It has IN and OUT LED indicators.

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Ray Parks <raymphs@...> wrote:
> Matthew, I am in the process of attempting to get a new Toshiba
> notebook, running Vista to take the place of a lot of diskettes. 
> Did you use the UX 16 USB to MIDI adapter sold by Yamaha?
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Teeter
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:47 PM
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [disklavier] Re: Windows vista WMP 11 and MIDI
>  
> I have no problems sending MIDI out from my computer to my piano
> using a USB-to-MIDI adapter on Vista.    I bought it on ebay for
> $15.  I haven't tried using WMP to output to the piano though; I don't think it can do that.
> Matthew
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:43 PM, George F. Litterst <PianoBench@...> wrote:
>  
> Good afternoon, everyone.
>  
> Spencer, I found your commentary on Windows VIsta to be very
> interesting. As you know, I am also a MIDI software developer (www.timewarptech.com).
>  
> Mostly we use Macs. However, we do develop for Windows and have to keep Windows machines around.
>  
> Not long ago my old Windows 98SE vintage computer died. I had
> previously turned it into a triple boot machine (98SE, 2000, XP). At
> this point, our development for Windows is focused on XP and Vista.
> So, I bought a Mac mini as a replacement. We made it into a triple
> boot machine (XP, Vista, Mac OS X Leopard).
>  
> The Mac mini works great as a Windows computer!
>  
> Regards,
> PianoBench
>  
> www.georgelitterst.com
> www.timewarptech.com
>  
>  
> On May 14, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Spencer_Lists wrote:
> Greetings JORGE,

> I fiddled more with this last night. There are a couple of
> utilities out there that offer to change the default MIDI player for
> wmplayer and sites that suggest the registry setting that need to be
> changed. I fiddled for quite a while and had no success. I have
> written some programs that use the wmplayer and have been amazed at
> how difficult, undocumented and unpredictable it is. It is the
> typical microsoft pile of garbage in which they decide what the user
> wants and provide even less than this. 

> I wrote a simple "midi picker" that works on XP and will let you
> change the default player so media player will output to your chosen
> device. I tried to find the relevant registry settings to change in
> Vista and gave up. Everything I have had to modify in vista to make
> it just barely useable has taken hours and hours or days and some
> things are still evading me and even Microsoft. Don't ask me about
> the 17 hours I have spent on the phone with Microsoft trying to get
> Vista to network with my XP machines. 

> Vista plus MIDI plus media player is just too much Microsoft to
> have a chance of working. The Vista online midi pickers i tried don't work either.

> Media player is everywhere but it is useless for anything other
> than what Microsoft wants you to do with it. Any other player that I have tried is much better.

> I installed XP as a boot option on my new fast machine so I can
> boot to XP if I need to run something that does not work on Vista.
> However the computer manufacturer (HP) will not provide information
> on some of the board resources and network adapters regarding XP
> drivers. They are probably not even available so unless I rip the
> machine apart and replace everything but the box, I am pretty much
> stuck with Vista if I want all of the hardware to work.

> Bottom line: Stay as far away from Windows Media Player and Vista
> as you possibly can unless your goal in life is to waste countless
> days and increase your frustration.

> Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:56:22 AM, you wrote:
>> Thanks Jhon, I agree, as mather of fact some months ago I installed
>> Vista in my desktop, after a week I uninstalled it.
>> I still use XP in my powerfull desktop.

>> I am trying to upgrade a very old and slow Pentiun IV I have in the
>> living room , connected to the DKV
>> (change it mainly for cosmetic reasons) 

>> 2008/5/14 konaneil <konaneil@...>:
>> You could install XP for the time being. On your new machine, with its
>> speed and memory, XP would run extremely well. This may sound odd but
>> around 200,000 computer professionals have signed a petition
>> <http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/> requesting Microsoft not
>> discontinue XP at least until they have a stable release of Vista
>> working properly. 


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