Found out in the usual manner (cough cough) that Microsoft has just “upgraded” the midi services in Windows 11, which is supposed to be backward compatible. Just not for me. I have three old tools that no longer function on my Win 11 Surface tablet. One is my Korg Pandora PX5D. I spotted Brendan Powers using one in one of the videos here which I hunted down afterward and grabbed off eBay for almost nothing (and only had to shoot some contact cleaner into the rotary encoder) which works great. The Sound Editor software no longer sees it. The other two tools are “MidiEditor” and “Harping Midi.” MidiEditor is just that, something I would use for quick and better editing of midi files before putting them into Harping Midi (which can do very basic editing, but not very good beyond that.) Harping Midi is great if you have a good midi of a song you want to learn on the harp as it will tell you what the tabs are for any selected harp and tuning and you can play along with them - at least until now - an awesome tool especially if you want to learn other parts of the song like baselines. Both of these programs will still load and allow editing, and display the info you want to know, but they cannot play anymore. At least I can’t get them to. They want to default to “Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth / Midi Mapper” which you can supposedly select something else, but I haven’t been able to get anything else loaded for another “midi out” option. These tools still work fine on my older Win 8 and 10 tablets so I haven’t completely lost out. Just letting people know what to expect if you’ve been using relics like me.
Turns out our Yamaha P-115 E-Piano isn’t seen either. Not very happy.