hi i have a windows vista laptop with Reason 4 and recently cant detect my midi interface (a M-audio 1x1) but i open another software like sibelius 5 and its detected and fully functionally, i have uninstall the drivers, then the software, and reinstall all again and the same happens; only appear two manufacturer (bheringher and Korg) but not ''other" devices, and that its how it works my midi keyboard generic device, and if i try the auto-detect say that there are no control surface detected....its a way to restore the file missing

A lot of people have difficulties with keyboards after a while. I think that it's happened with all of us. The whole thing is really tempermental and Reason isn't open source so there isn't really any proper technical information we can give you.

All I can really recommend is re-installing the drivers, checking that the drivers were properly extracted to WINDOWS/Drivers, that your USB port is working (even though it may work with other programs, I find that my German keyboard only works in a specific USB slot.

Viewing or editing Reason source-code or any code probably wouldn't help your problem - but I do know that it result it you being called a pirate and that the authorities would attempt to lock you up.

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i recently advise that the input bus of midi devices detected the interface and flashes when i pressed a key but cant hear anything, but when i pressed directly in the piano roll i can hear, besides i install in another pc with xp and compare the files and the registry keys and it's equal in both machines but in the xp PC the surface controler list load successfully, buth not in the lap with vista, a few weeks ago i,ve been working on them simply i dont know what happen, and no i dont want to alter the code of a program cause thats is and ilegal action, its the way of the programmers take care of ur jobs dont?. (BUT WHEN I BUY A TV I CAN OPEN CAUSE ITS MY OR DONT?). ok im thinking in caps now, sorry about that. im only want to know what did i do cuase i dont waht to do in the xp machine again and stay like a fool with a reason witouth a controller, im thoinking and buy and axiom controller right now and drop another to the trash can, sh...

well it's totally worth getting an axiom - they're great - but i wouldn't reccomend throwing away your other keyboard lol.

You should sell it online or something, Ebay's great for this sort of thing because it's got such a large amount of consumers.

As for the whole editing source code thing, that was pretty stupid... just ingnore me lol

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Im working again and rsolve this puzzle not the way i think but only install manufacturers device controllers and try one by one, after i found an akai driver for a different controller (not a keyboard controller) and WORK again after all.
Lucky Me, but the doubt still in the air what happen? i think that i deleted the driver with ccleaner, cause this was located in users folder temporal and that happened i think. anyway....

cclearner isn't that necessary, but I doubt it would remove files from the Drivers directory :/

Windows isn't the best - stuff like this always happens... its just about how certain things get left behind after being uninstalled and the way it's coded...

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