Hi..
I'm a newbie to this board. I'm a musician: computer literate but not extremely tech savvy.
I recently bought an old Acer Aspire One laptop with XP on it, in the hope that it would run some old music composition programs that I want to revisit.
One specifically is a Yamaha product called 'Visual Arranger'.
I can install it and open it fine, but when I try to choose which sound drivers to use for midi, I get an error message which seems to imply that the drivers are not installed or already in use by another program.. However, I have no other program installed that could be using them - except perhaps, that 'Visual Arranger' itself has a wav file that says 'Hello' - and whether this, somehow, locks the drivers I don't know.
The drivers I have installed are Realtek, which I downloaded from the Acer support site as being the right ones for the machine.
I originally used Visual Arranger on Windows 3.1 (it's that old!) and I do have a memory that I ran into this problem way back when I upgraded to XP (I'm one Windows 10 and much more modern progs these days) - but I can't remember how (or if) I ever solved it!
Any help would be so much appreciated!
Regards
Spig
I'm a newbie to this board. I'm a musician: computer literate but not extremely tech savvy.
I recently bought an old Acer Aspire One laptop with XP on it, in the hope that it would run some old music composition programs that I want to revisit.
One specifically is a Yamaha product called 'Visual Arranger'.
I can install it and open it fine, but when I try to choose which sound drivers to use for midi, I get an error message which seems to imply that the drivers are not installed or already in use by another program.. However, I have no other program installed that could be using them - except perhaps, that 'Visual Arranger' itself has a wav file that says 'Hello' - and whether this, somehow, locks the drivers I don't know.
The drivers I have installed are Realtek, which I downloaded from the Acer support site as being the right ones for the machine.
I originally used Visual Arranger on Windows 3.1 (it's that old!) and I do have a memory that I ran into this problem way back when I upgraded to XP (I'm one Windows 10 and much more modern progs these days) - but I can't remember how (or if) I ever solved it!
Any help would be so much appreciated!
Regards
Spig
