Hi,

I have one of those cheapo roll-up 
keyboards.  I've had it for quite a while, but 
never tried it out.  It's a bit too long, and 
droops off my desk, for one thing.   I have been 
thinking of getting a small keyboard for 
inputting to Finale.  I don't play piano, but I 
can play one line at a time.  Anyway, before 
spending any more money, I decided to try out the rubber one.
It works, or at least it plays by itself.  Finale 
refuses to recognise it, though.  Windows 
recognises it as a generic usb midi controller, 
but for some reason the signal isn't being taken by Finale.

One thing is, the usb/midi cable I have has a 
fork with in and out midi connectors on it.  The 
keyboard only has a single midi port.  If I plug 
one end of the Y in, the led on the doodad 
flashes, but it flashes as input.   I assume that 
it is talking about input into the keyboard, but 
I could be wrong.  It has happened once or twice 
before!  If I plug the other end in, I don't get 
either light flashing.  In both cases, it is 
playing the notes itself, but the program isn't interested.

Like I said, I don't really care if this one 
works or not, but I don't want to spend money on 
a better one, if I can't get it to work.

In the audio setup dialogue, I have input set to 
directsound - if I use ASIO, I don't get any 
output from the program at all.  For mike source, 
I have it set to primary sound capture driver - 
the only option.  When I come back into it, this 
field has usually set itself to blank.

Is there some esoteric setting somewhere that I 
am missing?   The user guide is not a lot of help on this subject.
I tried a midi controller some years back, and 
returned it because my cakewalk would not 
recognise it.  Oh, and it also had about 2 seconds of latency!

Any advice welcome...

Phil.



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