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(Message started by: kalamata_kid on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 5:45pm)

Title: Need more than 8 ports
Post by kalamata_kid on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 5:45pm

Hello,

I have a Pentium 4 PC (HT disabled) with WXP SP1, Cubase SX.
and EnergyXT. No external sound modules.
I have 6 midi controller keyboards (out: channel 1) inputted
to the USB MidiSport 8x8/s.

I also have Midi Yoke 1.71 installed and Midi Ox 7.0.0.365

I use 6 ins from the Midisport and one out and six ins, in Cubase
though it shows as Input port MidiYoke NT 7 to Output Ports
MidiYoke NT 1 thru 6 in the Mid-Ox program. I know it is a
little confusing but all works well. Thanks and I plan to contribute
some funds to thank the developers.

So out of a total of 16 ins and 16 outs I am using 12 ins and
one out.

Question: I need 6 more midi in ports and 6 more midi out
ports to improve my setup midi routing. So in essence all
I need is 4 more MidiYoke NT ins port. Is there a way
around the 8 ports offered by Midi Yoke?

Please note below (not sure how relevant this is)
Cubase SX sees all the real and emulated ports.
Moved the ignoreportfilter to the Cubase directory,
so resolve the midi interface/Cubase SX problem.
I de-activated all MidiSport and Mid Yoke emulated
ports.

Please help me get more ports. :o

Title: Re: Need more than 8 ports
Post by Jamie OConnell on Sep 4^th, 2004, 3:58pm

Because of the architecture of Windows XP (and 2000) the MIDI Yoke NT driver is hard-coded to 8 ports. However you could get another 3 virtual ports by installing the Maple drivers (http://www.marblesound.com) in addition to MIDI Yoke.

Title: Re: Need more than 8 ports
Post by kalamata_kid on Sep 4^th, 2004, 9:55pm

Hello Jamie,

Thanks for the speedy reply. ;D

Not clear that if I am limited to 8 ports how can I get three more with the Maple drivers?
Each Midi interface like the MidiSport 8x8 or Midi-Yoke each is only allowed
8 ports? If I had two interfaces would I be allowed 16 total ports?

Sorry for these questions which really show my ignorance of midi. :P

Title: Re: Need more than 8 ports
Post by Jamie OConnell on Sep 6^th, 2004, 8:24pm

You can have multiple MIDI drivers installed in Windows XP (up to 10 drivers). Each driver can target a variable number of Ports. MIDI Yoke (1 driver) supports 8 virtual ports, MIDI Sport 8x8 (1 driver) supports 8 hardware ports. Maple drivers (1 driver) supports 3 virtual ports.

If you had all of them it would be 3 drivers, 11 virtual ports, and 8 hardware ports. You would see 11 + 8 = 19 ports in the MIDI-OX Devices configuration.

Title: Re: Need more than 8 ports
Post by kalamata_kid on Sep 7^th, 2004, 10:24pm

Thanks Jamie,

You made it perfectly clear! :)

Title: Re: Need more than 8 ports
Post by dsilver on Dec 23^rd, 2004, 6:34pm

This is a minor point, but I believe that Maple drivers support 4 virtual ports, not 3. Am I missing something?