From badmuts@acadiane.org Mon Feb 04 02:07:53 2008
Subject:RE: Getting VSTi's to play on laptop

Tim,

Please read this:
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Most of what it says about usenet also goes for mailing lists.

From one of your other posts I managed to distill this as a few answers
to my questions:

> > ====================================================
> > I DID HOWEVER GET A SOUND WHEN I PLAYED THE B4 FROM
> MY MOUSE

Great. Should have asked this. This means we can narrow the problem down
to the communication between keyboard and computer.

> BUT NOT THE KEYBOARD WHICH IS PLUGGED IN VIA USB
> THE AXIOM
> WOULD BE POWERED FROM THE LAPTOP USB.

First, make sure the keyboard gets power. Any lights that light up on
it?
Does Windows make a sound when you plug it into the USB port or unplug
it?
Any dialog boxes or balloons popping up saying something about drivers
being installed, not being found or the device being ready to use?
Does it show as a MIDI interface in Windows Device Manager?
(which version of windows are you using?)

> AND
> I WOULD HAVE IT MIDIED AS WELL WITH NO RESPONSE.

Try starting the standalone version of B4 and go to its Setup screen,
then MIDI.
Find the MIDI interface you are using. Next to it there is probably
something that says OFF. Click on it so it switches to ON. Try again.

If this helps, do the same in your VST host software. Somebody else
already explained this in an excellent way.