Can't get MIDI Setup to open

Hello all,

I was wondering if you ever were able to access your midi setup window? I have the same exact problem. I plan on pasting the kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } ' in my terminal window tomorrow when I can have access to my Mac again (left it at work).

I'm absolutely dying to get this problem solved. I took it back to BestBuy and they told me I should wipe and reinstall everything. I just cannot believe that is the only solution.

Please let me know if there is any information you can give me that might help.

My Mac is only two months old. I was able to access my MIDI setup window for a few days even after I downloaded a digidesign driver. As of last week all I get is the same exact pop up window that you posted last year. Unbelievably frustrating.

Thanks for any help!

-Reid

Did you open it from the Utilities folder?

Applications/Utilities/Audo MIDI Setup.app

daniellamour wrote:

I never downloaded any MIDI drivers FYI.

M-Audio has come up in these forums before as possible trouble maker. Open terminal and copy/paste the following line.

kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '

Hit return and post the results.

Can I assume the aggregate is one that you created?

Ok, so M-audio doesn't install any kext's of its own but I suspect that because M-audio is audio related, Ambrosia WireTap Studio is audio related, and the Avid Digidesign stuff is audio related, there may be some kind of conflict going on among these three.

So I suggest you do some experiments by removing this other stuff one by one. That or check the various settings for these things to see if there is an obvious setting conflict.

1. Remove WireTab Studio. The instructions on this page show how to do that.

2. Remove Avid Digidesign. I have no idea what you have to do to remove that (although I could tell you the key places to look). At the very least remove its driver (hopefully it will have the name avid or digidesign in it) in /System/Library/Extensions and reboot. Hopefully that software has it's own uninstaller.

And independent of all this remove that PACE protection software. It leads to nothing but trouble.

Thanks this helped solve my problem. I couldn't see any drivers in Users/*your account*/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers

but with typing kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } ' in my terminal I could see the drivers I still had installed and then I just uninstalled them and it solved this similar problem.

What is that "Pro tools Aggragate" you have selected added to in the list.

Is your MIDI device plugged in?

Try making some changes here.

http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=353265 Windows

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/en436391 Mac

http://forums.m-audio.com/

Terminal application in your Utilities.