Live won't recognize midi - please help!

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sroom3000
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Live won't recognize midi - please help!

Post by sroom3000 » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:34 pm

Hello, I'm using an m-audio firewire audiophile box to connect my mdi keyboard and my laptop. My mac will recognize the incoming midi signal when i run "test setup" in the audio/midi setup utility but Live will not recognize it for some reason. Any suggestions??
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steved
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preferences ... ?

Post by steved » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:43 pm

Have you selected your midi device in Live's preferences ?
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Post by sroom3000 » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:47 am

yes, I've selected the midi device in the preferences and still nothing. Any other suggestions?
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Post by cosmosuave » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:49 am

sroom3000 wrote:yes, I've selected the midi device in the preferences and still nothing. Any other suggestions?
Reboot your Mac with all midi hardware on then launch Live...
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Post by sroom3000 » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:50 pm

I've tried rebooting as well, nothing. It's weird because my mac sees the incoming midi signal in audio/midi setup utility but neither Live 3 nor Reason will recognize the signal. ..and YES I have the device selected in the midi preferecnes of both programs. I'm running a midi foot controller through an m-audio firewire into a titanium G4 powerbook. Is there soemthing I need to configure in the mac? any suggestions? this has been driving me insane for days!!!!
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Post by bod » Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:18 pm

do you need any drivers to be installed for the foot pedal? my midisport 2x2 needed drivers, which i only found out after many days of fiddling. :oops:
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Post by udp » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:36 pm

Make sure you have the most recent drivers. Go to the m-audio web site. I got caught not using the latest oxygen 8 drivers and some of my music software couldn't see it until I updated the driver.
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Post by sroom3000 » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:51 pm

YES!!! it was the driver. I went to the m-audio site, downloaded the latest driver and now everything works brilliantly! I'm launching scenes and loops like crazy!! thanks UDP, great suggestion.

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