Hmm, I did not give the pertinent error message.
"The specified device handle is invalid" shows when I load Finale, but when I
try to click on a measure in Speedy, I get:
"The specified device is already in use. Wait until it is free, and then try again."
THAT is the message that I remember from the old days if I tried to load Finale on top of Cakewalk. But i cannot find a midi program already loaded.
I don't recall seeing the music keyboard icon in systray you mention. I
don't have one now, whether or not I run Finale.
Thanks for any help,
Ray H
dhbailey wrote:
Ray Horton wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Ray Horton wrote:
From the beginning of the Readme after installing Fin 2009:
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Congratulations on your purchase of Finale 2009 for Windows!
IMPORTANT: Read this document before you begin working with Finale
2008 and print a copy of it to keep with your Finale information.
Very interesting -- so much for proofreading, checking and
double-checking everything before going gold.
How about the program itself?
Read my other messages. I actually installed 2009 hoping it might
resolve my MIDI input - Proikeys keyboard problem I've had for
several weeks, but there is no change there. If someone could
possibly help me find a solution, I would be glad to report back on
2009!
I've been following those other messages, since I, too, have a
Prodikeys keyboard but so far have only run into one problem with it
which happened when I first installed it.
It seems that WinXP has a limit on the number of midi input devices,
and I already had that limit filled, so I was getting no input from
Prodikeys. Simply removing one of the currently-unused midi-input
devices solved that problem for me.
I hadn't mentioned that before because it sure sounds as if your
problem is something else. I believe you can remove the little
applets that installed with Prodikeys with no negative effect, if you
wish.
When your computer starts up, is there a small music keyboard icon
appearing in the Systray? If so, then something indeed is using
Prodikeys right from the start. On my computer, that little piano
keyboard icon appears only when I run a musical application such as
Finale2008 or Sibelius or Band-in-a-Box.
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