MIDIOX and Ableton

[thetechnobear]

this is a windows issue/limitation ( * ) there has been some discussion of this here

Multi-client driver for Windows

I am trying to see if there is anybody who would be able to give an advice on this. Electra is a MIDI class compliant device. It means no drivers needed to get it working when you connect it to a computer. This works perfectly on Mac OS X and Linux. It also works on Windows but there is a big drawback. The Windows MIDI driver allows only one application to access/use the device at the time. So if you want to use the editor and the DAW in the same time you will fail. This problem was reported lo…

( * ) macos, linux allow midi devices to be used by multiple applications at once.