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. Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
