Midi Madness (was Drag and drop problem)

[rocmills]

The drag and drop problem being discussed under a different thread was finally fixed. Not, unfortunately, by doing anything clever or actually *solved* anything... Dell told us to simply reinstall XP on top of itself - and it worked, all drag and drop functions were restored.

Now here's the new oddity...

After verifying that everything was working properly, but without installing or running any programs, my husband plugged in his midi keyboard and tried to record a track. Before the track was finished, the system froze (program being used is digital orchestrator). Upon reboot, the drag and drop problem returned!

How is using the midi causing this problem? Could it have something to do with the fact that there are *two* sound cards installed on the system?

HELP!
:->

--Roc
"Whatever one man can dream, another can accomplish" - Jules Verne

 

[SYAR2003]

Does this midi recording involve a certain program/card.
If so i would suspect it to be the cause .


syar

 

[rocmills]

Syar,

Th program is Voyetra Digital Orchestrator Pro. The sound card that came with the computer is the Audigy 2 card - which has no standard midi/game port... So we installed (added, the audigy was not removed) an older Sound Blaster Live card which *does* have a midi/game port. The Blaster card is used solely for midi input.

I'm certain there is something about this unconventional set up that is causing the problem... I'd just like to figure out *what* is causing and, more importantly, is there a way to *stop* it from happening without losing our midi input.


--Roc
"Whatever one man can dream, another can accomplish" - Jules Verne

 

[SYAR2003]

Perhaps having two soundcards is not so great .

I'm just throwing out some idea here ,and
as you say it is unconventional with one audigy
and one sb-live installed. Actually never tried to
have two soundcards installed .

Is it possible to disable all but the midi port
on the sb-live ?

Look at this page several usb-midi products as
an alternative to your current setup:

http://www.audiomidi.com/hardware/midi_usb.cfm

syar