Quick tip: if you have an M-AUDIO/Evolution MIDI controller that fails to be recognized despite downloading the newest official drivers or mention of it being "class compliant", you may have to install older drivers for it to work. Counterintuitive, yet true.
by djscorchio
I ran into this yesterday with my MK-249C on both Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows XP SP3, and it looks like it applies to a number of other models (e.g., MK-449C, MK-461C).
Mac OS X 10.5 (and 10.4)
Thanx to artifact Blog for the tip!
Windows XP SP3 (and possibly SP2 and older)
It was hard to find, so I've hosted it on my DreamHost server.
Let me know if this helps you!
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Got any info on Vista drivers?
@Ganesha: Alas no because I’m not on Vista, are you having a prob with something related?
AAAAAAAHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG!!!!!! HATE those M-Audio techoids!!!!
In Aug 2007, after lots of “tech support” emails from them I decided to put my 249 on a deserve long break. They couldn’t figure out the problem
Thanks to you it’s LIVE again!!
Wowwww, mate, You are my God. I was going to put my 249 on a deserve long break but then i came acroos with this blog that I really dont know of what it is. My mk 249c is working PERFECT! after one week finding solutions. I was wondering where did you get that pdf manual?? is fantastic. man is enought i m going to start doing musik. God bles you!!!
10.6 seems to break this, any ideas? i have the usb ext from the 10.1.5 download installed but no bones, any ideas?
-S
I HAVE A FIX FOR LEOPARD!
That doesn’t work on 10.5 or 10.6, but you can tweak it so the kext patch will actually load. I just found out tonight Here’s my writeup:
http://siokaos.org/?p=1653
Thx to you, I finally found it! cheers!!!
can anybody repost Siokaos’ instructions, his site is down and redirected to a hosting service.
Joe
Yes please somebody repost Siokaos’ instructions… Joe C is right and i’ve spent hours searching on internet without any results..
My mk-249 is worthless as long as it won’t work on Snow Leopard
Hello all,
i have a 449c and my pitch bend is not working at its full range.
for example when i slide it down it goes at the value 35 (than 0) and when i slide it up it goes at the normal value 127…
maudio didnt help me with any solution so …
please help.
Thanx in advance.
Hey people, I’ve been searching and searching… WITH RESULT!
http://forums.m-audio.com/archive/index.php/t-13835.html
“Basically you need to install the Evolution_USB-Keyboard.kext from the driver package linked above by Airotique. Just decompress the .sit file and execute the EvolutionUsbExt.pkg. Or you can do it manually extracting the Evolution_USB-Keyboard.kext with Pacifist.app and installing it with Kext Utility.app.”
Kext Utility download: http://www.kexts.com/view/129-kext_utility_x64_for_snowleopard_(update).html
ENJOY!