I posted a thread some time ago about running Voyetra's Sequencer plus/pro. It ran but i got no midi signal. Now I've tried again, and I have discovered that i have to be a bit more presice in my question.

First: the computer...

celeron 500
64 mb ram
aw64
Nvida Riva TNT2
VDMS 2.1.0

I know this is not too much of a computer, but I have tried my settings on an AMD athlon 2ghz with 512 mb ram & so on where it seems ok...

Now:

Sequencer plus is a ASCII-based program that came along with the first soundblaster cards (1, 1.5, 2 and pro...). The first release was in 1987, my current version is from 1992, and can be downloaded for free from WWW.VOYETRA.COM.
It was the only sequencing program i used between 1989 - 1997.

The program has som features that no other modern sequencers has, so to me it is most important to get it working with either my soundcards midi out/in or the "midi yoke" virtual midi-device.

(Midi yoke is a program that let you patch midisignals between different programs using the midiports.
In the properties/midi-options of the sequencer/soft-synth a/several midi-ports appear ("midi out :midi yoke junction 1 - 8...").
I allready have connected VDMS with a soft-synth (th VAZ modular 2010) but i get no midi-signal.)

Sequencer plus does not run (you can't playback or record) if the "vapi....com" driver is not loaded. There are one vapi-driver for each mididevice compatible (i.e. vapisb.com, vapimpu.com...)
Under VDMS only the soundblaster driver (vapisb) loades sucsessfully.
(In addition there are Sapi-drivers - for fm/onboard synth accsess and Tapi -drivers - ?? i believe some soundcards w/o midi use these drivers prior to a sapi driver)
When i try to run vapimpu.com i get the message

"interrupt not found - check your hardware installation..."

BUT if i first load the soundblaster driver - then the mpu driver it seems to be ok. I first see the lines

" IRQ system passed test at IRQ 5
MIDI driver v1.40 for all soundblaster cards...."

then when the mpu driver loads:

" Reloading VAPI driver. Use /REM to remove"

and it loads, plays and records (though it runs extremely slow on my computer during playback or prelisten, but I do not intend to use the program on this one).

Now. Since the program believes that everything is working, i assume that it is sending midi information out somewhere, but i do not get any response from either:

1. the midi yoke driver on my computer (no midi signal in the soft synth program assigned to the according midi yoke port), or

2. the usb mididevice i tried on the other computer (no LED activity on the breakout-box).

Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong ???

in that case: thank you extremely much

Kolbjorn