Is everyone sick?

[Tony Scharf]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Martin Naef <mnaef at navisto.ch> wrote:
>
> I wished... Just wasted some time yesterday trying to get my midi
> interfaces to work again - looks like some recent system update
> finally killed the AMT8 drivers for good. They were rather iffy under
> Vista for some time, but now I don't see the MIDI ports anymore even
> though the driver starts up... Looks like I need an early Christmas
> present in the form of two MOTU Midi Express 128... Until then, it
> looks like I'm restricted to either playing live (the off-line routing
> still works), or play soft-synths with my backup MIDI interface. Damn,
> I hadn't budgeted for any studio expenses this year. <sigh>
>

That sucks.

Do you have an XP laptop or something laying around you could run the
AMT from, and then use one of those 'midi over ethernet' programs I
have seen to get the MIDI from you main VISTA machine to the the XP
machine?   Maybe that could work for you and be cheaper in the short
term?

Tony