"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Robert Morein" wrote in message

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Arny Krueger wrote:

"Robert Morein" wrote in message


2. If the computer hibernates and is restored from
hibernated state, the midi in connection breaks. I
thought this was a problem with my midiman usb
converter, so I switched to a Creative Audigy ZS game
port. However, the same happens.

Simple, really, turn the hibernate function off.
If you need to put something in stand by, go to your
energy settings and just let the monitor swith off
after a while.

I would like to use hibernate, because the difference
in power consumption is quite substantial. For
example, my 2.6g P4 draws 110 watts operating, 70 watts standby,
and 0 watts hibernating.

You do understand that when a machine hibernates, it
pretty well breaks all
connections with outside I/O devices, right?

Anything that needs a 'sync' is going to lose it for
sure.

Not inevitably.

Yes, inevitably. No power, no synch.

IME, firewire connections to external sound devices do break.

This is a debating trade ploy. The discussion was about MIDI, and now
discussion has switched to IEE1394. However, Morein's debating trade ploy
just digs him in deeper, because he quickly makes false distinctions
between USB and IEEE1394.

OTOH, usb connections to external
hard drives generally restore when the machine wakes up.

So do IEE1394 connections. Both IEEE1394 and USB are hot-plug interfaces.
Both can convey power to outside devices, which may confuse the unaware.

So do HIDs (human interface devices, as defined by
Microsoft, to include typing keyboards and pointing devices.

This is yet another debating trade ploy. The discussion was about MIDI,
IEEE1394 and USB and now discussion has switched to a class of I/O
devices which are available commonly available with USB and yet another
interface, the interface used for mini-DIN connectors such as found on
legacy mice and keyboards.

Morein has already demonstrated gross technical incompetence with his
incorrect claims about MIDI. IEE1394, and USB which share in common the
fact that they are by definition, hot-pluggable. The mini-DIN
keyboard/mouse interface is commonly impmented either way. Typically
hot-pluggable for keyboards, and mice on laptops, but not hot-pluggable on
desktop computers. Why Morein would venture into an area with this greater
complexity is unimaginable for a sane person, given how badly he's blown
it with the simpler cases.

When the Midiman 1x1 stopped working after a hibernate
cycle, I did suspect a problem of this nature.

Pretty simple really, you powered everything off, except perhaps the
source MIDI device the SL880 keyboard.

So I switched to the MIDI interface on the Creative sound
card. This is a simple, asynchronous interface similar in
nature to a serial port.

That's MIDI, no matter what hardware implements it.

The only device on it is a Fatar
SL880 keyboard, which is an output-only device.


If the Creative sound card driver is as well written as a
typical serial port driver, it should survive a hibernate
sequence.

That depends on the program that you are trying to control with the SL880
keyboard.

OTOH, the problem may be in the Cubase program
itself. Perhaps it needs to get a new port handle on
wakeup, and fails to do so.

How about that? ;-)
I'm looking for answers, not sarcasm.