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Thanks. Iread this to him over the phone. He's going to borrow a friend's proven controller and see if that helps. and etc.

He's done that before and still no dice. He's trying to use his external midi device to control the internal midi instrument. Tracks armed, remote in is on, etc (and I'm quoting here) and still nothing. When he uses his laptop's keyboard to control it, it works reasonably well, but he's looking to ...

I'll tell him to try this. (he doesn't have internet access!?!)
I'll hope it's something else though, b/c he's in school to be an audio engineer... sounds like basic stuff to me. Thank you.

My friend's got a cheap radio shack kybd w/ midi out running into a USB 1.1 jack on XP/Live5.0.1. It shows up under preferences -> midi/sync - under both input and output - but pressing a key doesn't do anything. I'm sure we're missing something simple, but I just don't know what. Any links or ideas ...