Hi,

I have a Casio keyboard I can transfer midi songs to from my computer.
I now have a laptop with Windows Vista and are not able to set it to to
transfer the songs like I did on XP. I then poke around a little and
find this on
Wikipedia:

"The ability to choose a different hardware or software MIDI
synthesizer other than the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Software
synth has been removed from the user interface for audio configuration
in Windows Vista. A different output MIDI synth or output device port
can be selected only by editing the registry."

How on earth are people now going to be able to hook up their midi
devices when you will have to edit the registry to do so? There must be
room here for third party midi configuration software, but I am not
able to find any.

Am I missing something obious here, or am I simply out of luck with my
keyboard on Vista since there are no midi setting in the audio
properties anymore?

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//ceed

"ceed" <ceed.spameater@dysthe.net> wrote in message 
news:xn0fkp1elq0lp001ceedsaid@news.individual.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Casio keyboard I can transfer midi songs to from my computer.
> I now have a laptop with Windows Vista and are not able to set it to to
> transfer the songs like I did on XP. I then poke around a little and
> find this on
> Wikipedia:
>
> "The ability to choose a different hardware or software MIDI
> synthesizer other than the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Software
> synth has been removed from the user interface for audio configuration
> in Windows Vista. A different output MIDI synth or output device port
> can be selected only by editing the registry."
>
> How on earth are people now going to be able to hook up their midi
> devices when you will have to edit the registry to do so? There must be
> room here for third party midi configuration software, but I am not
> able to find any.
>
> Am I missing something obious here, or am I simply out of luck with my
> keyboard on Vista since there are no midi setting in the audio
> properties anymore?
>
Vintage M$. Presumably in a while software will appear to do the registry 
setup.

In fact, if you know what changes you need to make, modifying registry 
values isn't hard. You can do it manually using regedit, which is a standard 
inbuilt utility, or you can create a script file to do all the changes at 
once. Needless to say, there's plenty of info on all this on the web. Just 
be *really* careful that you don't clobber anything unintended.

Someone here may be able to assist with the specifics for your device.