MIDI lock

[Rubbie]

In the manual I find this sentence:
"On rare occasions, you may encounter a situation called MIDI lock, in which your synthesizer is “stuck” on a certain note or chord."
But in my experience I can get a MIDI lock every 5 minutes!

I have a 24" 2.8 GHz iMac G5 with Mac OS X 10.5.1 and 2 Gb RAM
and Finale 2008a.
I have tried 3 different USB keyboards, all with pretty much the same result. I prefer using a new Edirol PC-50.

I'm writing a score with 18 staves, feeding the notes by Speedy Entry.
Not speedy at all!

Sometimes it gets unstuck if I do a Save.
But most of the time I have to click All Notes Off.

Can anybody help?

Rubbie

[iannis]

Rubbie-

Try clearing out your preferences:

Close Finale.

Go to your MAC HD >> App Folder >>Users Folder >> Your User Folder (house) >>Library Folder >> Preferences Folder.

Drag the Finale 2008 Preferences File to the trash.

Empty the trash.

Restart and test Finale.

[Rubbie]

That didn't help. Got stuck again after a minute
And I'm using the latest USB driver available, claimed to be Leopard compatible.

Rubbie

[iannis]

This is a midi driver issue.

Uninstall and reinstall the driver following the manufacturer's directions.

Set-up you midi with Audio Midi Set-up, then within Finale.

Test.

[Rubbie]

Nothing wrong with the driver!
Would you believe that the old mouse was the culprit?
Not easy to guess since the MIDI lock always took place at least half a minute after I had used the mouse;
I feed most of the notes using only the MIDI keyboard and the numeric pad.
But when I bought a new mouse, the problem disappeared.