Norton72
Suffers from Noazitol
Hello, I'm new here, and new to home recording as well -- a new noob. I have an Alesis Multimix 12 Firewire. I'm running Reaper on an older Win Vista machine. (P4 2.8Ghz 4GB RAM Intel D865PERL mobo, if any of that is pertinent.) After a few hours of fooling around, I got the MM12 and Reaper working fine together. I had read that some people had experienced problems with the firewire, and these problems seemed to be solved by installing a firewire card with a Texas Instruments chip. I ordered one, just in case, and meanwhile continued to run on my system firewire card. During this time, I installed EZDrummer which worked well at first. After I installed a couple of additional EZD extensions, Reaper started crashing. I was hoping that maybe the new TI firewire card would help this problem, either that or uninstalling EZD and reinstall without unnecessary extensions.
When my new firewire card arrived, I installed it, started my computer, installed the drivers from the CD, and shut my computer back down. I then followed the proper procedure of connecting the MM12, and started my computer back up. When everything was back up, I could see the MM12 in my Device Manager, but the drivers were missing. So, following the PDF instructions that I had previously downloaded from Alesis with the updated drivers and firmware upgrade, I proceeded to reload my drivers. Following the instructions, I shut down and disconnected the MM12 from the computer, restarted and loaded the drivers. That all seemed to go well, as I can see the drivers in the "Add and remove programs" in my Control Panel. (Yes, I first uninstalled the drivers as well as the "Windows Alesis" something or other... it was farther down on the list. I also uninstalled the Alesis device in Device Manager.)
At this point I am supposed to shut down, connect the MM12, restart and my drivers will finish loading. I am not supposed to install the drivers manually, (the driver file is an .msi file) I am supposed to let Windows automatically install them, but this is not working. if I try to browse to the .msi file, Windows finds no drivers. I have searched these forums before posting, but didn't see anything like this in the three pages I searched.
Does anyone have any ideas about solving this? Or do you know where else I should look?
Thanks,
Norton
When my new firewire card arrived, I installed it, started my computer, installed the drivers from the CD, and shut my computer back down. I then followed the proper procedure of connecting the MM12, and started my computer back up. When everything was back up, I could see the MM12 in my Device Manager, but the drivers were missing. So, following the PDF instructions that I had previously downloaded from Alesis with the updated drivers and firmware upgrade, I proceeded to reload my drivers. Following the instructions, I shut down and disconnected the MM12 from the computer, restarted and loaded the drivers. That all seemed to go well, as I can see the drivers in the "Add and remove programs" in my Control Panel. (Yes, I first uninstalled the drivers as well as the "Windows Alesis" something or other... it was farther down on the list. I also uninstalled the Alesis device in Device Manager.)
At this point I am supposed to shut down, connect the MM12, restart and my drivers will finish loading. I am not supposed to install the drivers manually, (the driver file is an .msi file) I am supposed to let Windows automatically install them, but this is not working. if I try to browse to the .msi file, Windows finds no drivers. I have searched these forums before posting, but didn't see anything like this in the three pages I searched.
Does anyone have any ideas about solving this? Or do you know where else I should look?
Thanks,
Norton