CME M-Key not being recognized

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CME M-Key not being recognized

Has anyone used the CME M-key midi keyboard? I just got one and it's not being recognized at all. It does get power from the usb cable so it's not the cable... But it's not showing up in Audio Midi Setup. I've tried to rescanning midi and even restarting my Macbook Pro and it still won't show up in Audio Midi setup or audio applications. There's no driver for OS X as it's a general MIDI device and it's supposed to be plug and play.

Any ideas?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Oct 5, 2008 5:49 PM

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Eriksimon

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Oct 5, 2008 6:24 PM in response to bogstep

Hi Bogstep,

What I also gather from it's manual (section 4.2) is that it should (make the Mac) install a driver, and even that you may have to restart during that installation. Has this happened at all?

regards, Erik

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bogstep Author

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Oct 5, 2008 6:27 PM in response to Eriksimon

Hi. I read that too but I believe the parts you refer to only apply to Windows. I haven't found any trace of an OS X driver anywhere, not even on the CME website.

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Eriksimon

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Oct 5, 2008 6:32 PM in response to bogstep

Well. it says:

4.2 Driver installation
After you connect this product to your computer via USB and turn the product on,
the computer will find it device and install the driver automatically.
You can plug and play this product on WINDOWS XP/VISTA or *Mac OSX*.
When the driver installation is finished, this product will be recognized as
the ”USB Audio Device” or “CME M-KEY”.
The MIDI driver offers 1 USB IN and 1 USB OUT.

Maybe you should retry. In what USB port do you have it plugged?

regards, Erik.

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bogstep Author

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Oct 5, 2008 6:56 PM in response to Eriksimon

I initially had it plugged into a USB hub but I tried plugging it directly into the USB port on the Macbook pro next to the power cord and it didn't make a difference. Restarting it again after that didn't do anything either.

"After you connect this product to your computer via USB and turn the product on,
the computer will find it device and install the driver automatically."
The above part is almost certainly referring to Windows as that's how it works on Windows and I've never encountered such a thing for USB midi devices on OS X.

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