Windows 10: USB midi controller and Windows 10 update

Hi, I have an M-Audio Oxygen 8 midi controller keyboard that I was using through usb into a DAW (Reaper) for producing music.


It was working until the last Windows 10 update, but now Reaper doesn't recognise that I've got the device connected...nothing shows up as a midi device.


I've uninstalled all the USB connection in Device Manager, and the Unknown Device too, and restarted.


The USB connections all appear again, when I plugged in the midi controller it was installed as Unknown Device with no drivers.


What do I do?


Thanks

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1) I have a MIDI keyboard connected to my desktop via a M-Audio USB MIDI Interface.

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