Reply To: MIDI Keyboard Trouble

If you’re familiar with MIDI, then I suppose you’d know most (all?) hosts require the MIDI controller to be on and connected before opening them, for them to recognise and use it.

I’m sure you knew that, so on to my other concern!

It sounds like, after some time, the controller is, perhaps, disconnecting? If you aren’t using a USB device for some time, there’s a chance it’s being put to sleep, I believe. If that happens, Podium may see it as a disconnect, and reconnecting the USB device would presumably mean needing to restart Podium with the device on again.

If you go to Device Manager in Windows 7, and check some of your USB device properties, you’ll find an option that you can disable, whereby Windows can’t power down USB to save power. See if disabling those helps you at all.

In regards to MIDI, I think what is meant is that Podium will only allow one input device in the setup, and one output. But I could be wrong, Frits might have to answer that one.