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bswinner
Total Posts: 5
Joined 09-08-2009 status: Newcomer |
Has anyone gotten AN Expert Editor to work with windows 7? I bought the PLG150-AN without realizing that the software does not appear to work on Vista, or in this case, Windows 7. Interestingly, running it in compatibility mode also does not work. Has anyone figured out a solution or is my board rendered pretty much useless? |
bswinner
Total Posts: 5
Joined 09-08-2009 status: Newcomer |
Maybe this has promise… |
nbadesign
Total Posts: 994
Joined 08-20-2007 status: Guru |
As I read in some computer magazine, Win 7 will have XP compatibility mode, e.g. XP SP3 installed “behind” so you could start all XP applications normally. But, when I see it, I would beleive it. Until that, I’ll keep working on XP. Alex |
bswinner
Total Posts: 5
Joined 09-08-2009 status: Newcomer |
well, I can confirm that xp mode for windows 7 does work. I got the expert editor to load and install and can open the software. Right now I can’t seem to get midi to work, which obviously makes the software pretty useless, but at least I now have hope… |
bswinner
Total Posts: 5
Joined 09-08-2009 status: Newcomer |
Well, as usual I over-complicated things. Good news is that AN Expert Editor vs 1.2.2 works perfectly fine with Windows 7 and also shows up within studio manager. You do not have to worry about using XP mode within either the professional or ultimate versions of Windows 7. All you have do to is install the editor, then right click on the shortcut to launch the editor, select properties, and choose to run in XP service pack 3 compatibility mode. It will not run in the normal Windows 7 mode. That is all! Hope this helps… |
nbadesign
Total Posts: 994
Joined 08-20-2007 status: Guru |
Good information! Thanks a lot! Since I’m considering of buying a new desktop with more RAM, but I’d like to use plug-in boards in my ES, than Win 7 is the right place to work. Alex |
BobOD
Total Posts: 8
Joined 06-09-2006 status: Newcomer |
So, how did you get MIDI to work? I can also get the app to run, but there’s no MIDI connectivity in Win7 with that app. I’m running Yamaha’s latest USB/MIDI Win7 driver with an S90 that has several PLG150 boards, including the AN, and I can’t make it work with any of the older apps. Bob O’Donnell |
Ricoche
Total Posts: 20
Joined 05-06-2010 status: Regular |
Was anyone able to find the secret to getting midi to work with Windows 7? |
nbadesign
Total Posts: 994
Joined 08-20-2007 status: Guru |
Was anyone able to find the secret to getting midi to work with Windows 7?
There is no secret, if you have downloaded and installed the latest USB MIDI driver from http://www.yamahasynth.com.
Alex |
javelin276
Total Posts: 31
Joined 07-30-2016 status: Regular |
Yes, it does run! I finally figured it out… quite by accident.
I have XGWorks 3.0.7 running on my 64 bit machine (Windows 7) with no changes to the compatibility settings. I also managed to find an ini file for version 3.0.5 which has support for the MU-1000/2000 tone generators. Yamaha turned them off in version 3.0.7. The files needed are still in the install package, but they turned off the menu selections which existed in the 3.0.5 version. email me if you want the ini file. XGWorks 3.0 Plugins: An early version of the plugins will run on 64 bit Windows 7, you just have to know where to get them off the Yamaha Japan website, linked below (all one line in your browser). Go to the bottom of the page and click the checkbox just above the grayed out file name ‘allplginw.zip (4.66mb)’ then click on the file name to download the file. The file contains the following plugins for Windows XGWorks:
â—AN Easy Editor V1.0.0 (Japanese menus, english captions)
When you run the install file, simply select the plugins you want to install into XGWorks and it does the rest. They all seem to work on my 64 bit Win-7 machine, except for the SG-Lyric Editor which displays a warning message in Japanese. I haven’t bothered to translate it since I don’t have that card. The AN-editor menus and the SG-editors are in Japanese, but they run on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit version. It’s a small price to pay to get the dang things working. You can also get the menu items working in Japanese characters rather than jibberish. The plugins are non-unicode and you have to change the windows setting so it will display the Japanese characters correctly. Once you have the Japanese characters, you can us google translate to figure out what they say. Here’s how:
Go to Control Panel.
OK, there you go! |