Audacity 2.3.1 Doesn't See MIDI Input

[gswetsky]

I’m sending MIDI data to Audacity from a Roland Juno 2. Running the latest version of Windows 10 and using a MIDI to USB conversion cable. The light on the cable shows the data is being sent, but it never shows up in Audacity. I can send audio data with no problems. My audio host is MME and recording device is Line (USB AUDIO CODEC).

Here’s a section of my Device Manager. I have no idea where the “Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth” is coming from. It shows up when I boot. There’s no reference to it in my startup file. The Canon lines refer to my laser printer.

Any ideas? Is there a (free) program I can run to troubleshoot this?

Gerry

[steve]

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor. It doesn’t do MIDI recording, although it does support playing back MIDI file (which are imported as “Note tracks” https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/note_tracks.html)

[kozikowski]

“Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth”

That’s Windows trying to play your MIDI data. MIDI isn’t music or sound. MIDI is a programming language to tell a device or synthesizer how to make a musical note. You can’t hear it. So I guess technically, you should be recording the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth.

Missing features

Koz