FireWire Audiophile dosn't detect my Photon 25

kinetix · Post by **kinetix** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:20 pm

I just bought an Alesis Photon 25 Midi Keyboard and have plugged the midi out of the keyboard into the midi in of the FireWire. I used an external power adapter for the keyboard and booted up ableton. After a quick fiddle with the settings i got it to respond. I then tried it a few hours later and nothing happened.
I have now tried several things to get it to respond again with no luck including using USB with the keyboard, using different software (Reason) and re-installing the Firewire drivers. All with no luck! The keyboard still fails to respond in any capacity.

The keyboard seems to work fine as i quickly pluged it into an old PC and it worked no problem with Ableton (through USB) with no Audiophile.

Can anyone help, it is probably a simple configuration problem but i'm bemused!

Thanks in advance,

Garry

kinetix · Post by **kinetix** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:38 pm

i just hooked up my firewire with my old PC and it works, so is there anyway i can compare the settings on both computers to fix the problem?

boatie · Post by **boatie** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:19 pm

if you are on a mac there is a known issue with software update and midi audio setup... everytime auto update of the operating system occurs it needs the audiophile drivers re-installing...

i found the answer at www.macosxhints.com i think, a post by meta.

you will need to go to m-audio and download lates driver and uninstall pkg, uninstall driver, reboot, re-install driver.

quick but annoying...

hope this helps