Connecting a computer and a keyboard.

ttteh,

I ran the software on Windows 7, 64-bit.

Finally, I set up everything yesterday.
I bought the keyboard Yamaha YPT220 www.amazon.com/Yamaha-YPT-220-Personal-K...id=1324951540&sr=8-1
and MIDI adapter www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JLU26W/ref=oh_o04_s00_i01_details .
I run the program on Windows Vista.
I just run the program, connect the keyboard with the computer, turn it on, and it works.
However the response time was really slow, so I just set the resolution lower in tuning, and everything works perfectly.
I would recommend to buy set like this to anyone, especially for small kids: it's not expensive and works great so far.

Well we have had a bit of a frustrating week! Firstly my old laptop died which was all set up and working well with soft mozart. I thought it would be a straightforward thing to swap to my desktop computer BUT unfortunately not!

I had some very good support and suggestions from the SM admin team but nothing worked and I realised that the problem was with the USB midi cable. I had bought a relatively cheap one from amazon (made by visionaer). So today I went to a local digital music shop and they gave me some good advice to try a MConnect USB to MIDI interface by ARTaccessories.

It is a plug and play model and worked immediately!! I was so happy after a very frustrating and and disappointing week. Now we just hope to get started.......

lzp11 wrote: Well we have had a bit of a frustrating week! Firstly my old laptop died which was all set up and working well with soft mozart. I thought it would be a straightforward thing to swap to my desktop computer BUT unfortunately not!

I had some very good support and suggestions from the SM admin team but nothing worked and I realised that the problem was with the USB midi cable. I had bought a relatively cheap one from amazon (made by visionaer). So today I went to a local digital music shop and they gave me some good advice to try a MConnect USB to MIDI interface by ARTaccessories.

It is a plug and play model and worked immediately!! I was so happy after a very frustrating and and disappointing week. Now we just hope to get started.......

Great to hear good news from you! Could you, please, place a picture of this cable or find a link, where people can buy it using Internet?

It is always very important to have an access to reliable interfaces

This might be particularly helpful for people in the UK. Here is a link to the device and and the shop I bought it in:

www.dv247.com/cables/art-m-connect-usb-midi-interface--89473

It can be bought online but I lived close enough to visit one of the three DV247 stores. I really recommend this shop as they were extremely helpful and were happy for me to return the cable and try another one if it did not work. They sell a lot of digital music equipment and instruments so were very familiar with the issues of getting a good cable and were able to give good advice.

I bought my MIDI to USB cable for $5.95 from Amazon. I'll let you know soon if it works out, I bought it in a hurry and didn't read any reviews, so I guess I'll just wait and see.