As many of you know, I am using MyDMX in a sort of strange case situation. If it should fail, it should fail on my system. I'm running a 17" Early 2008 17" MacBook Pro. I've been running BootCamp. I've also upgraded from Windows XP Home to Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Some things I'm nothing TONIGHT because I did some testing. Don't ask me how difficult it is to do testing around here, but let's just say I'm in a house full of clueless people who exist in a fog that surrounds their heads and blocks out the fact that other people exist and leave it at that.
I'm noticing more devices working now.
1: My Akai LPK25 does now work with MyDMX, at least in Win 7. This is a change.
2: My M-Audio MIDISPORT 2X2 Anniversary Edition works as well. As a result I was able to use my JL Cooper CS102(the real thing).
My Korg Nano controllers continue to work. My Novation Launchpad works. My M-Audio Firewire 410(it has MIDI IO) works, and again, used a real JL Cooper CS102 as my test device and it worked.
The only thing I can say is that I don't know if it's because of Windows 7 or the September 2010 release or some combination of both is at the root of these improvements. Since I'm not running XP on this machine, I'd have to go to a pair of other machines that run XP Pro to see how they would do, and right now I'm not taking the time.
The only problem I ran into was a MIDI interface priority issue at the beginning of my testing this evening. The Firewire 410 was interfering with the MIDISPORT 2X2 interfaces. I unplugged the Firewire 410 and then tested in a more controlled environment. So, while MyDMX needs some help still, maybe there has been some progress made. Still, the only way you're going to use more than one device is to use a MIDI interface and use true MIDI devices behind it.
Other good news is that this may open up more possible controller devices for MyDMX. Unfortunately, I can't test everything out there for you. Unless you bring it by or help me buy it or I'm gonna buy it on my own, sorry, there's only so much I can do.
So, I think when we post that something works, we need to clarify things as specifically as we can. We need the OS, as well as 32 or 64 bit information. We need the driver revision of the hardware driver for the hardware. We need the make and model of the controller. We also need to know how it interfaces(or if it's an interface). We also need to know what version of MyDMX is being used.
If we can do this, we may be able to compile a usable database. It will never be complete, but we can try.
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