@cm said:
out of curiosity i just plugged in ny old and cheap M-Audio MidiSport Uno USB-to-MIDI device on a W7 x64 system and - voilá here it is without any driver installation.
hth, christian
The plot thickens! A look at the M-Audio drivers page shows no driver for Windows 7 64 bit. It does show a driver for Vista 64 bit.
Which driver did you install for the Uno Christian?
The whole compatibility issue seems very hit and miss. Such statements as 'works on some installations' that I've read while researching this don't exactly inspire confidence.
I emailed Jesper Wilfing, a Swedish man who rewrote the CME UF8 driver for WIndows 7 (but sadly only the 32 bit version so far) to see if he'd managed to work out the same for 64 bit version and he hasn't been able to yet. He did say that it only took him an hour to do the one for 32 bit Windows 7 though.
Here's what he said, "I am very sad to say that it isn't possible to my knowledge to get it running on ny 64-bit system. As soon as I find a solution I will be sure to make a good setup package and post it on the page. Thanks anyway for letting me know about the page problem. It has now been corrected!
Thanks and let me know if you find a solution! Me to thinks CME is lazy pigs!! It took me like an hour to create the setup package on this page, but they wer too lazy to do it..."
I think it's somewhat more sinister than laziness - I really think it's a misguided attempt to get people to buy one of their newer versions - but I wouldn't touch anything of theirs again with a bargepole! The only reason I want to keep my present UF8 is purely because it cost a lot of money and I don't want to incur that kind of cost again. If I did it certainly wouldn't be with CME. I emailed their UK importers this morning to ask for their assistance and guess what?.... No reply!
If anyone needs this particular unofficial driver, (which seems to have pleased many people) - it's available here:
http://cme.wilfing.se/
It doesn't work on my 64 bit system though.