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Windows 7 midi

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.

Posted: Fri, May 29 2009 1:46 AM by Ramon Smits | with 21 comment(s)
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Edgar said:

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

thank you

# December 18, 2009 5:13 AM

Edgar said:

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

www.benryves.com/.../vistamidi

# December 18, 2009 5:14 AM

Chris Guco said:

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

# December 27, 2009 7:08 AM

ArchAngelKing said:

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

# January 4, 2010 7:51 PM

Sebastian said:

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

is ok for Win7.

Thanks

SEBA

# March 12, 2010 11:57 AM

Andrea said:

Thanks Seba,  

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

works great on Windows 7 !

# April 27, 2010 12:03 PM

Lidocain said:

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

# May 7, 2010 10:11 AM

Brian c said:

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.

# May 23, 2010 2:53 PM

brian said:

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.

# May 27, 2010 9:44 PM

Kofla said:

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

# May 29, 2010 6:23 PM

Stavros Dimopoulos said:

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

MidiPortConfig

http://sdim.gr/mpc/

# July 9, 2010 12:19 PM

ben the midi man said:

thank you

# September 23, 2010 10:17 PM

Matías said:

I need to turn up the volume but I don't know how. Can anybody help me?

# September 24, 2010 8:03 PM

Le Renard said:

I have midi input issues through usb.  This works on output and NON ONE knows how to get to the midi in, even with a registry hack!

# October 1, 2010 11:45 PM

MIDI Files said:

Hi,

Many persons or music beginners would be facing same problem with windows 7 MIDI applications. Thanks for sharing the information and solutions to their problems.

# November 26, 2010 6:31 AM

Javier Z said:

Thanx!!!

# February 8, 2011 11:29 PM

Kenny said:

Hey folks,

Having a problem with midi in Reason 4 and Cubase 5. Running Win 7. It was working fine, no problem but recently I get a message saying the midi driver is in use by another application (message is in Reason) and I have no midi signal being received. I had a look around and a few people seem to think the only fix is to reinstall Win 7...seems a bit drastic. Anyone any similar issues and would the above links help? In work at the moment so can't check. Thanks, soundcloud.com/bearbones-1

# February 11, 2011 1:41 PM

iSam said:

I have Windows 7 but the Midi Fix doesn't work for me! Nor the putzlowitsch-tool.

# April 3, 2011 9:19 PM

Dancemidisamples.com Vocal Samples said:

Does this work an a Mac or is there a mac version of the software available???

# August 17, 2011 4:26 PM

Ramon Smits said:

I don't know anything about the mac. This tool is specifically for Vista/7 because the midi configuration has been changed in behavior.

# August 17, 2011 4:46 PM

Manny said:

I have a problem getting Sonar 8.5 to give me a midi output using windows 7. Can anyone give me any suggestions. I've installed the drivers but still does not recognize any of it.

Hope someone can help.

my email is riveracepeda@msn.com

Thanks,

Manny

# December 23, 2011 8:16 AM
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