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(Message started by: G-FACTOR on Jul 13^th, 2006, 8:15am)

Title: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by G-FACTOR on Jul 13^th, 2006, 8:15am

hi everyone! i'm trying to install midi yoke in windows vista to no avail. has anyone found a way of doing this? i keep getting the message file is not specified. does it mean vista has no support for midi yoke? help!

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by neurostatic on Oct 7^th, 2006, 5:51pm

hey there, i managed to get yoke working on vista, unfortunately you need to install the driver manually - what i did was to install it on an xp machine, copy the resulting oemX.inf and oemX.pnf (where X was 2 in my case) into vista's %windir%/INF folder.

Then i had to export all related registry entries (i found 5 references) merge them into vista's, copy the MYOKENT.DLL found into the setup folder of yoke into %windir%/System32 and reboot.

So yeah, it implies working with regedit and you have to make sure you dont overwrite any existing entries in your media drivers, as windows increments each driver entry in its registry as a numeric value, eg:

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\00XX - where XX is the driver index.

my best guess would be to put it at something like 99 - or a higher value if needed - and alter all references into the registry according to this value. windows will detect it anyways, and i doubt it will cause problems if ever you install another media driver after, in case there is a gap between your last installed driver index and that custom one, but i cant be sure as i just got it working. With vista still being in testing phase, this is just a quick fix, and as usual when playing in the registry, is at your own risk.

I tested it in reason 3 and Virtual Midi Keyboard by Wouter Van Beek without probs yet.

I kept the files i used, and theyr'e available at

http://nsoft.ca/hosted/yoke_vista_fix.rar

I would suggest to use only if you know how to use the registry and to create a backup before. Also, ppl using this should make shure they wont overwrite any existing driver entries, and take a look at the .reg files before hand. Also make sure you extract the files on a local hard drive and that you have administrator access - vista is annoying when it comes to security.

Hope this helps.

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by davidm_uk on Dec 15^th, 2006, 7:04am

Are there any plans to release a (Beta?) MIDI Yoke installer that's Vista compatible in the near future? I considered trying to use neurostatic's files, but then found Maple which I'm now using. However, I'm not sure that it performs as well as MIDI Yoke.

I'm more than happy to test an early Vista-compatible build, if that would help.

David

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by davidm_uk on Dec 31^st, 2006, 6:11am

I assume that's a 'no', then? :'(

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by Jerry Jorgenrud on Jan 4^th, 2007, 7:14am

Hang in there, it's a little busy in the kitchen at the moment :P

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by davidm_uk on Jan 8^th, 2007, 7:03pm

on 01/04/07 at 07:14:06, Jerry Jorgenrud wrote:

Hang in there, it's a little busy in the kitchen at the moment :P

LOL, thanks - sorry, I don't mean to be impatient!

I'm using Maple at the moment, but the timing's all over the place - not something I remember seeing before with MIDI Yoke. Anything I can do to help test, let me know...

Title: Re: midi yoke in windows vista
Post by npm on Mar 27^th, 2007, 5:09pm

Just tried Neurostatics intructions... they work like a charm! :D

Thanks dude, and the programers of yoke and midi-ox. Great Tool ;D