Windows 7 midi

Published Fri, May 29 2009 1:46 AM | Ramon Smits

My midi hardware it working nice in my DAW home studio but today I noticed that I do not have the ability to change the default midi out device in Windows 7. After googling around it seems that this was also the case in Windows Vista. But luckily there are options to configure the default out device!

The first that I found was the Windows Vista MIDI Mapper control panel and minutes later the Vista MIDI fix. The control panel application fixed my problem but only lists hardware midi stuff like my MIDI USB keyboards and the hardware midi output of my Creative card as the Vista MIDI fix application lists more midi out options but I haven' not tested those yet.

Both applications run without any problems here on my Windows 7 RC x64 installation.

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# Edgar said on December 18, 2009 5:13 AM:

I prove it in my Windows 7 x32 and work very well,

thank you

# Edgar said on December 18, 2009 5:14 AM:

akkordwechsel.de/15-windows-vista-und-der-midi-mapper

www.benryves.com/.../vistamidi

# Chris Guco said on December 27, 2009 7:08 AM:

hi there,

just wondering if you could help me. I am not hearing any midi sound in my computer using Sonar 8.5 yet its working properly in Audition 3.  In Sonar options there's no MIDI item that I can select. By the way, I'm using windows 7.

Many thanks,

Chris

# ArchAngelKing said on January 4, 2010 7:51 PM:

I don't see the midi mapper on windows 7. Is this in the control panel? It's not there for me. Also Sonar 8.x doesn't see midi mapper device or the Microsoft GS Synthesizer either but in FLStudio 8 I see my usb midi, midi mapper, microsoft GS synthesizer but I don't know how to configure them in windows 7.

Please help

# Sebastian said on March 12, 2010 11:57 AM:

putzlowitsch.de/.../plw-vista-midi-mapper_0_93.zip

is ok for Win7.

Thanks

SEBA

# Andrea said on April 27, 2010 12:03 PM:

Thanks Seba,  

putzlowitsch.de/.../plw-vista-midi-mapper_0_93.zip

works great on Windows 7 !

# Lidocain said on May 7, 2010 10:11 AM:

It doesn't seem to work with Windows 7 / x64 : nothing shows up in any category of the control panel

# Brian c said on May 23, 2010 2:53 PM:

If I shange to ASIO in sonar 8.5, I get the wavetable.......... very frustratoing because if I do that my Mobilepre will not work.

# brian said on May 27, 2010 9:44 PM:

Anyone having a problem converting a Midi track to an Audio track in Sonar 5 producer running in Windows 7.

I was....but now have an easy solution.

# Kofla said on May 29, 2010 6:23 PM:

I just downloaded and use Vista Midi Fix and works fine!, with windows 7 home premium 64

I use it to upgrade Waldorf Blofeld firmware playing the midi file neccesary via WM player.

Thank you very much

# Stavros Dimopoulos said on July 9, 2010 12:19 PM:

I had the same problem so I made a simple utility. It's free.

MidiPortConfig

http://sdim.gr/mpc/

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