You won't be able to have your device tell the PC he's someone else (and thus can use a better brand-specifc driver). When a USB device is connected to the PC, it tells the PC which brand and model it is, and the PC finds the appropriate driver for that model. Many manufacturers have worked around this kind of issues by writing their own drivers for each of the supported operating systems. As far as I know you won't find any better driver which you can use on a 'class compliant' device like your MIDI interface. I'm not sure but I believe they even kept the same driver for Vista. Windows didn't do any upgrade on its driver since the launch of XP (October 2001). There's a problem with the XP driver indeed, specifically for transmitting large SysEx messages (over 4096 bytes). Its a Konix w-718 and there are no drivers on the manufacturers website.ĭoes anyone have any idea where I can get a generic usb midi driver that might work? Maybe a driver from another product might work (long shot, i know). Maybe a simple driver update could make this cheapo work great.but i cant seem to find one. Searching the net and windows update yielded no results for a suitable driver. Device manager says its using some generic microsoft driver from 2001.

It installs a driver when you plug it in.

This midi device doesnt come with a driver cd. Ive tried bome and midiox and they dont work either. As soon as I try to save a patch to the axe-fx it says 'bad checksum'. Recieving data from the axe-fx works flawlessly (backing up banks and patches etc) If i edit patches it seems to send data to the axe-fx just fine. Thought id take a chance on one of those $5 chinese midi interfaces.

Generic midi usb driver