OK, on my Windows XP system I can get playback (MIDI or Garritan) or
input from my Creative Prodikeys DM keyboard (combo computer and midi
keyboard), (depending on which software I have reinstalled last) but not
both.
After using the Prodigy keyboard with no problem for a few years, I shut
the computer down for a week to leave town in early June. When I
returned, I started having some problems with the computer which were
eventually solved with a new power supply. But these
midi-Finale-Prodikeys problems have remained.
The computer part of keyboard works with no problem.
Before receiving the new 2009 DVD, I tried reinstalling both the
Prodikeys software and Finale. After the former, starting Finale
results in this message: "The specified device handle is invalid."
Finale then loads with no sound or midi input. This error message is
one I recognize from days gone past when i would accidentally be running
a midi sequencer and open Finale on top of it. It would require a
reboot to fix. It seems to suppose that the Prodikeys is running some
kind of midi program that Finale does not agree with, but i cannot
locate one.
Reinstalling Finale 2008 would gain me playback, but no recognition of
the Prodikeys midi keyboard - it does not show up on the midi setup.
Right now, after reinstalling the Prodikeys and installing Fin 2009, I
get the above error message when I start Finale, and I _do_ see the
Prodigy showing in the Midi setup (although, of course, it doesn't work!).
Thanks for any advice offered.
Raymond Horton
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