![]() Most USB to MIDI adapters are just protocol convertors and are Class Compliant under Windows (no driver required). USB3 can normally be identified by the colour of the plastic inside the connector. Supposed to be backward compliant – evidently not. Interesting there were problems using USB 3. Then again, some of the "dirt cheap" MIDI-to-USB cables which are sold over the internet are poorly made and unreliable, so that might be it, too. As soon as he tried connecting the audio interface to a USB 2.0 port, his DAW and other software were able to detect the MIDI data. It turned out he'd been connecting the audio interface to a USB 3.0 port on his computer, and that was the whole problem. Finally he contacted the Customer Support for the audio interface and the support rep spent a good deal of time with him to resolve the issue. Several people in the forum gave him a variety of different suggestions to try out, but nothing helped. ![]() A user had connected his keyboard to an audio interface via MIDI cable, then connected the audio interface to his computer via USB cable, and his DAW and other audio software were able to detect that there was a USB device available, but they couldn't detect any of the MIDI data that was being transmitted to the computer. I've never experienced this myself, but the first time I heard about it was when it came up in another forum. When dealing with USB cables, and MIDI-to-USB cables, one thing you might need to check on if you're having trouble is that you aren't using a USB 3.0 port on your computer, because that might cause a problem. ![]()
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