Here's what E-MU tech support said:steverosburg said:Turns out that E-MU doesn't support Windows 7 for the XMidi. I have sent them an e-mail to see if they will be offering support in the future; I'll have to wait and see what their response is, but if it's anything like other requests in the past then I'm not too optimistic.
I'm actually surprised so many MIDI adapter vendors don't claim Windows 7 support for their devices; it uses basically the same driver architecture as Vista and thus should not be big challenge.
On a positive note, I tried switching to the MIDI adapter built into my E-MU 1212M PCI sound card, and it works like a charm under Windows 7 x64.
In regards to Windows 7. We currently do not have any specific drivers
or support for Windows 7 and E-MU products at this time. Our preliminary
testing is showing that our Vista drivers are working well in the final
version of Windows 7. We will be monitoring the release of Windows 7 to
collect info and data, and we will then evaluate if anything must be
done in regards to E-MU providing a special Windows 7 driver for our
products.
I suggest you look at the WINDOWS 7 thread in the E-MU forum at
www.productionforums.com .
The users there are having some really good results with the VISTA
drivers.
You may also try this while installing the softare:
http://www.w7forums.com/application-com ... -t314.html
rickboot said:Cakewalk has drivers for Windows 7 x64. I haven't tried one yet but will probably buy one soon.
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/AudioMIDI.asp
steverosburg said:On a positive note, I tried switching to the MIDI adapter built into my E-MU 1212M PCI sound card, and it works like a charm under Windows 7 x64.
I posted a new thread on this, but just an update for those following this thread: I have it working again, and it appears to be AXE-EDIT that was the culprit. I assume that it somehow got corrupted, because once I completely uninstalled and reinstalled it started working again. Woo hoo!steverosburg said:steverosburg said:On a positive note, I tried switching to the MIDI adapter built into my E-MU 1212M PCI sound card, and it works like a charm under Windows 7 x64.
I spoke too soon. After trying to do a firmware upgrade to V9 and failing with a bad checksum twice, I can now no longer get the MIDI adaptor in my sound card working, either. As soon as I launch AXE-EDIT and it tries to send/receive data to/from the Axe-Fx it crashes.
I am soooo sick of the device driver dance with every new version of Windows. I had hoped it wouldn't be an issue this time since I was upgrading from a working Vista 64 setup.
Dojo, are you running Windows 7 x64? If so, let me know your experience with AXE-EDIT. I'm curious if you have any crashes with it or not using the M-Audio.GuitarDojo said:Bit the bullet on the Anniversary edition. I am using Win7 mostly now, I only have 1 laptop left on XP so the ol midisport isnt entirely useless.
(Win 7 Drivers released for Midisport 2x2 -4x4 anniversary editions)
steverosburg said:Dojo, are you running Windows 7 x64? If so, let me know your experience with AXE-EDIT. I'm curious if you have any crashes with it or not using the M-Audio.GuitarDojo said:Bit the bullet on the Anniversary edition. I am using Win7 mostly now, I only have 1 laptop left on XP so the ol midisport isnt entirely useless.
(Win 7 Drivers released for Midisport 2x2 -4x4 anniversary editions)
Use since 2 weekssteverosburg said:Dojo, are you running Windows 7 x64? If so, let me know your experience with AXE-EDIT. I'm curious if you have any crashes with it or not using the M-Audio.GuitarDojo said:Bit the bullet on the Anniversary edition. I am using Win7 mostly now, I only have 1 laptop left on XP so the ol midisport isnt entirely useless.
(Win 7 Drivers released for Midisport 2x2 -4x4 anniversary editions)