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Hi!

Any one tried any of the nano-controllers with Windows 7?
I have the nanoKey and have tried to install the Korg midi drivers on Windows 7, without luck. The keys still work on the system, but the Korg drivers don't install (no error message) and the editor wonät work, of course, because of this.

Hi There. It was announced by Microsoft recently that Windows 7 would have support for XP Pro and all it's current Drivers using 'Virtual technology' called VirtualPC. Thay are calling it XPM. There are limitations as in that the software has been designed to run on specific processors, mostly AMD but some Intel also. Perhaps they will expand the range if it becomes popular which I strongly suspect, it will.
So I think Microsoft are going a long way to 'Blank out' Vista from their Memory Banks, not a raging success from a Business point of view whilst XP has been and apparantly still will be for quite some time to come.

You can read an intersting artice here with regard to 'Virtual' XP. In part I think that answers your Question with regard to 'Driver' suitability. Possibly it may be suitable for your needs however I would stick with XP untill you know for certain.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... p-mode.ars

Soundsgood wrote:Hi!

Any one tried any of the nano-controllers with Windows 7?
I have the nanoKey and have tried to install the Korg midi drivers on Windows 7, without luck. The keys still work on the system, but the Korg drivers don't install (no error message) and the editor wonät work, of course, because of this.

Did you run "Install Korg USB-MIDI Device" under the Korg folder in the Start menu? The file in the download installs the USB-MIDI Driver Utility. You then have to go and install the driver with the aforementioned "Install Korg USB-MIDI Device" utility.

MonoPolyMan wrote:

Soundsgood wrote:Hi!

Any one tried any of the nano-controllers with Windows 7?
I have the nanoKey and have tried to install the Korg midi drivers on Windows 7, without luck. The keys still work on the system, but the Korg drivers don't install (no error message) and the editor wonät work, of course, because of this.

Did you run "Install Korg USB-MIDI Device" under the Korg folder in the Start menu? The file in the download installs the USB-MIDI Driver Utility. You then have to go and install the driver with the aforementioned "Install Korg USB-MIDI Device" utility.

Hi!

There is no such entry under the Korg folder in the start menu!

mrniceneasy wrote:Hi There. It was announced by Microsoft recently that Windows 7 would have support for XP Pro and all it's current Drivers using 'Virtual technology' called VirtualPC. Thay are calling it XPM. There are limitations as in that the software has been designed to run on specific processors, mostly AMD but some Intel also. Perhaps they will expand the range if it becomes popular which I strongly suspect, it will.
So I think Microsoft are going a long way to 'Blank out' Vista from their Memory Banks, not a raging success from a Business point of view whilst XP has been and apparantly still will be for quite some time to come.

You can read an intersting artice here with regard to 'Virtual' XP. In part I think that answers your Question with regard to 'Driver' suitability. Possibly it may be suitable for your needs however I would stick with XP untill you know for certain.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... p-mode.ars

Hi and thanks for the interesting information. I will read the article and see if this is of any help.

I'm still running XP on my music machines, just testing Windows 7 on another computer.

It seem that when you install the driver in Windows 7 with the Korg installer, it doesn't work as expected and do not add the driver file on the system, so you can't install it after.
What I've done is take the file from a Windows Vista 64 where it was installed fine, and then upgrade the driver with them. Work fine, except when Win7 loose midi, but well, Microsoft fault it seem.

Arcanum-XIII wrote:It seem that when you install the driver in Windows 7 with the Korg installer, it doesn't work as expected and do not add the driver file on the system, so you can't install it after.
What I've done is take the file from a Windows Vista 64 where it was installed fine, and then upgrade the driver with them. Work fine, except when Win7 loose midi, but well, Microsoft fault it seem.

I think you did well to get the Driver to work in Windows 7. What we must remember is that W7 is not yet offically finished and still in Test stage and 3rd party Drivers won't be of concern to Microsoft at this time or for quite some time ahead. With the announced Virtual pc to run XP the Driver issue shouldn't exist on W7.