Windows 10: Found incompatible device - Edirol PCR500 MIDI Keyboard

For all the positive compatibility of Win 10 (all my recording studio hardware except the PCR500 is compatible) I have found one device that is not.

A user on the Cakewalk Sonar forum reported his Roland/Edirol PCR800 MIDI keyboard did not work in Win 10. I tried my PCR500 (basically the same, except less piano keys) and found it will not install and gets a Code 28.

I have the Roland Win 8.1 drivers and tried installing the drivers as is, and with Windows 8 compatibility mode and both result in Code 28 error in Device Manager. I tried installing the driver in a Windows 7 compatibility mode and the Roland installer aborted with Incompatible OS.

I'm OK as my recording studio production system is dual boot Win 7/Win 8.1. I plan on upgrading the 8.1 to Win 10 but when I need the PCR500 MIDI keyboard (infrequently) I can use the Win 7 system with my recording studio software (Sonar).

:)

 

Windows 10 and USB MIDI conflict with Microsoft GS Wavetable synth

I'm using a MIDI sequencer (Forte3) on my laptop running windows 10. and am having trouble connecting it to my MIDI keyboard

Forte is a legacy (x86) software tool

I have connected my midi keyboard to the laptop using a USB to MIDI cable

The midi cable is recognized in Device Manager under Sound,Video and Game controllers as

USB 2.0 MIDI

General info

Sound, Video and Game controller

(Generic USB Audio)

Device status

This Device is working properly

In Forte I've selected USB 2.0 MIDI as my MIDI input/output device and when I test it (using the FORTE test function) it plays properly through my MIDI keyboard.

However when I start the sequencer playing a midi sequence, it plays through the Microsoft GS wavetable Synth and not the USB MIDI 2.0 device that was selected.

In earlier versions of windows this problem was fixed by selecting the USB device as the Default windows MIDI playback device.

I can't find anything that corresponds to this in windows 10.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

midi keyboard midiplus i61 not sending midi info to any program. windows 10

I recently bought a midi keyboard to get back into piano. The problem is that even though the keyboard is recognized by my computer as i61, as a usb audio device, it won't send any midi input into any midi program I have tried (Anvil studio, midi editor,
midi piano and simple piano). One program (anvil studio) says that it is getting an unknown error from my keyboard (very useful /s). The keyboard works on other computers (Mac w/ garageband and HP windows 8.1 w/ simple piano) but I've had no luck on mine.
I'm using an inspiron 13 5378 with windows 10.

 

That's not good. I'm now wondering about my very basic Akai keyboard...
Might be worth reporting it in the Feedback app, if you haven't already (or looking for someone else's report and 'up-voting').

 

Try extracting the installation files (7-Zip) to a new folder
Launch Device Manager
Update driver - select look on my computer (or have disk) and point it to the extracted install files.

Who knows, it might work *Wink

I also saw that there is a SMF update available, but I don't think that's the issue since it gets installed to the keyboard through midi.
The link for that update is dead anyway on Roland.

Definitely feed MS the information, it is probably an oversight since instrument keyboards aren't as high priority as other devices.

But the 8.1 driver 'should' work on Win10 !

 

I tried the "update driver" from the Device Manager and it didn't find any driver. As two of us have the same problem, its either Win 10 or a different driver is needed. Roland discontinued the Edirol product line a couple of years ago so I doubt that any new drivers will be forthcoming. (Reason I have the Edirol PCR 500 keyboard, Guitar Center was the sole company to liquidate Edirol keyboards and was "blowing out" the Edirol's at very deep discount prices).

I'll post the problem.

 

Update. Roland has updated some device drivers and made them "plug and play" in Win 10. However, there are many devices that have not had drivers updated for 10, including their "flagship" recording interface unit the Studio-Capture.

The old (discontinued) PCR MIDI Keyboard line, as it appears, will not be supported in Win 10.

However, a hack has been posted on the Cakewalk Sonar Forum to the Windows 8.1 drivers .inf file allows SOME devices to be installed and work in Windows 10. The hack works on my Studio-Capture and on my PCR-500 MIDI Keyboard. The hack may work for other Roland devices but NO GUARANTEE.

Here is the link to the forum thread on the Cakewalk Sonar forum. The hack instructions are near the end of thread.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Who-switch...-m3255186.aspx