Cant Hear Midis

[b3n]

Midi files have just started to stop playing properly on my comp When i got to control panel then to audio devices i try to add Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth or woteva but when i click apply the box just goes blank and midis continue to stuff up. I think i may need to reinstall drivers but where do i find them?

 

[b3n]

Anyone?

 

[Lorand]

I think i may need to reinstall drivers but where do i find them?

Drivers for what?

 

[b3n]

Drivers for the midi mapper or the sound card or whatever that makes MIDI work.

 

[Lorand]

And what's the name of that soundcard?

 

[b3n]

I have a laptop and the card is SoundMAX Digital Audio.

 

[b3n]

IBM Thinkpad R40 is the laptop model.

 

[Lorand]

Download the driver from here: http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-46024

 

[b3n]

Im downloading those drivers now.

 

[b3n]

Nope they didnt work. The weird thig is if i open a midi composing program such as Sibelius it plays the midis fine and when i go to TEST MIDI DEVICE in that prgram it tests it and its fine just i cant play midis with any media player or on the net.

 

[b3n]

Anyone?

 

[ZER0X]

Anyone?

A person from this forum said http://xu4.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?f=1&i=756&t=756

I had the same problem with the same version and also on XP...

I simply went in contrl panel / sounds / audio / midi.
And then I picked MICROSOFT GS WAVETABLE SW ... instead of my built in sound card.
And it worked.

 

[b3n]

yeah well it doesnt.

 

[samstokes]

I've had the same problem with MIDIs. I've never figured out why Windows Media Player and Winamp seem to often have trouble with them.

One possible band-aid fix would be to record your MIDIs playing from Sibelius using Soundforge or some other audio recording software and then you could save them as MP3s and listen to them that way. I know that isn't ideal, but it is one way to tackle the problem.