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Having a bit of trouble with a MIDI Express 128.

If a power the PC up with the MIDI Express 128 connected then everything looks fine - device recognised by Windows, all 8 inputs and outputs appear valid to my music application software, MIDI inputs show activity on the input activity lights. But - if I send MIDI data to an output then no activity is shown on the output lights and no MIDI messages are output. Equally no MIDI input actually gets to the applications. If I Stop the device (using the Remove device safely gismo on the bottom righthand corner), disconnect and reconnect it then all works fine. Equally if I start the PC up without the device connected and then connect it everything works fine. It works but is a pain and I am not sure that unplugging and plugging the device every day is a good thing! One other thing is that after stopping the device, and after reconnecting it something seems to hog the CPU for about 20 seconds or so.

It is connected to a Dell PC running XP with SP2. Also installed are a Yamaha SW1000XG and an Emu 1212 soundcard. I downloaded and installed the latest driver from the EMU website (and for the other devices). I have uninstalled and reinstalled each audio device but the symptoms remain the same.

Anybody had anything like this or got any ideas?

Guess I must be the only one . . . . .

HI; NO U are not alone, in my case I have probs when I restart the PC sometime the interface hangs up and all input led show light, but in the hardware usb I cant see the interface, only unknow device. I must sconnect and reconnect to resolve.
Im using windows xp2 on an asus an8E motherboard and motu 896HD.

the motu MIDI express 128 is a new one maybe driver probs

Hi, I'm new here and was looking around for possible solutions to some issues I have w.r.t. MIDI Express 128 - and I came across this thread.

I have 3 USB Expresses and every time I boot up the PC with the units plugged in, the system either doesn't see ANY of them or only some of them. If it does see all of them (very rarely), the port assignments are all screwed, so MIDI data gets sent to wrong devices, control surfaces don't work etc. Safely removing the USB devices, unplugging and then reconnecting them IN PROPER ORDER resolves all issues, but is not really a workaround.

So, as someone here was wondering ... you are not alone !

Have now opened a trouble ticket with MOTU - let's see what they say.

Hi - I started this thread and still have the same problem. I have done a complete rebuild of my PC and it is still the same. I have a Yamaha SW1000XG soundcard installed - wondered if anybody found this was a conflict of if there had been any news on this problem at all.

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