M-audio 49e I have an m-audio 49e midi controller. I bought it over six months ago and I can't get it to work. I'm not the most savviest individual when it comes to sound or pc or anything, but where I bought it it worked just fine. I don't know what else to do. I have a pc. I use cakewalk music creator as my host recording program. any ideas?!

No, but you might try loading parallels and then running the older XOS on that.... its worked for me with other applications

In the control panel, sounds and devices, check that the device is in each list under audio, voice, and hardware tabs and that your device is the default device. If NOT in the list, the CORRECT drivers are NOT installed or not properly installed.

You must use some form of MIDI sound generator module connected to get sound... It is a standalone capable MIDI generator, but NOT generating audio.

It sounds like a hardware issue, you will need to get your keyboard repaired

who cares its just a millisecond and its just takes a while for it to load on the computer nobody actually counts the time it takes

I'm not at home right now where all my manuals are so I'll try to explain with out. You will have to set it so that the keyboard is the slave device. Try setting it to Omni receive. It has to be able to listen for all midi channels at once. You have to write a sequence on your computer and hook it to your keyboard by using midi out on the computer to midi in on the keyboard in order for you to use the computer as a controller. If you need the keyboard to create the sequences then you have to hook the midi send on the keyboard to the midi in on the computer play/enter your notes into individual tracks in your software then assign channels, voices etc to each track and save the sequence. Then when you hook it up the other way the sequence will play just like an audio recording except the sound w2on't be there. What you have recorded by creating a sequence is a series of midi messages that the keyboard will receive if you have it set properly and hooked up ptroperly which it will translate into sound. This is a minimalist explanation at best. You will have to have a better understanding of not only your keyboard but also your software and midi in general. There are some pretty amazing things you can do with midi. For instance if you have a lighting controller that is midi capable you can i,mbed all the lighting scene changes for your song in order on one track. You can also control your guitar effects pedal to change effects automatically while your playing. Once you get a handle on it you are only limited by your imagination and your budget. Hope this helps in some way.

you should go to your  utilities --> audio midi setup and make sure your system is recognising your midi device. Play around with your midi settings, see if you can get something going.
Otherwise the problem maybe with the software clashing with Leopard. Double check on the manufactures website that their software is compatible with 10.5.6, or they may have an update for you.
Thirdly you could check if you keyboard is working correctly by opening garage band and making a new software instrument track, press record and see if you get any thing.
Good Luck hope this helps.

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I just found this in the M-Audio forums. I've just called the number and left a message at M-Audio requesting a callback. I'm really hoping that tech support will have a solution for whatever is causing this malfuntion. . . I'll post here again when the parts come.

Sounds like it might be a power supply issue. Unless it is mains powered.

Try removing all other USB devised. If that doesn't work its worth try a Mains Powered USB hub.

Buy a Mac, Then you won't have that problem.