as I once ran into a similar (audio) problem under WinNT, here a seggestion what might cause the trouble:

Windows uses one wavedevice as standard output. That means that the driver / device gets opend by the system and when pd tries to open it, we get an errormessage (I got something like: 'Device in use by another application'), because it is allready in use by Win. Someone told me to switch off the system sounds, but it did not work with NT. Another solution could be to set the 'preferred device' (controll pannel -> multimedia -> audio) for both audio in and out to 'none'. This - sort of - disables the systems sound section. (in german Win: 'Bevorzugtes Gerät' = '[Kein]') Be shure to check the 'Only use preferred devices'-option in the same window...
Or: If windows uses the soundmanager as standard device, you could try 'pd -soundoutdev 0 -soundindev 0'. Device -1 is the soundmanager (default), device 0 is the first soundcard.

Hope that works... sorry, no ideas about the MIDI problem...

Olaf
 
 

Jørgen Mortensesn schrieb:

Hi!  I can only say I have the same problem! Exactly! It was not there under Windows 95. I had a similar problem on another computer where I wanted to install Pro Tools 5.1 an DIGI01. Even though Prot Tools was not at all startede up it occupied the sound in and sound out device. So I had to buy another more humble soundcard from Soundblaster - and work with this also in the computer - just to have pd and pro tools on the same platform. Wish somebody could manage this out.  Joergen

----- Original Message -----

From: Jim Ruxton

To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at

Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:43 PM

Subject: [PD] Trouble getting midi input, midi output ok. Please Help.

 Hello,I'm new to Pd and am trying to get midi to work. When I type " pd -listdev "  I get the error   midiInOpen : MMSYSTEM002 A device ID has been used that is out of range of your system . Does anyone have any idea what common problems would cause this. My motherboard has built in sound using the Crystal Semi. CS4299 . Midi output is working. I'm running W98 . I have my Midi input and output drivers configured as MPU -401 . I'd appreciate any thoughts as I'm stuck.Jim