Does anyone use Frontier's Alphatrack controller?

I use cubase 9.0.3 on windows 10 and I bought Alphatrack yesterday.
First my mistake was that I didn’t check how does it old machine and second was I didn’t checked how the conditions of it’s websites now.
Well, skip all. does anyone use it on windows 10 right now? or I just have to write a praying mails to the Frontier’
Plz give me just any kind of advice…or just make fun of this fool pensado…

Frustration will find you ditching it…as it was without support when I attempted to continue to use it into Win10.

Hopefully you can move on.

Install the driver in Win7 compatibility mode.
Put the plugin in your components folder and and follow the setup instructions and see what happens.
I see some users claim they have it working with W10…but as they stopped making and supporting this 6 years ago, if it doesn’t work then you can’t be too upset. Mine had pretty much fallen apart by the time W10 arrived so I never bothered.

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well, then it could be use on the mac? if i can use it, then i will think about move to mac system more faster…

then, it could run on mac right now?
if it still can use on mac, then i’ll change my system earlier…

The driver verson 1.30 will work on Windows 10 x64 but the installer won’t :slight_smile:
Run the installer in Win7 compatibility mode and make sure to copy the file “AlphaTrackCN64.dll” into
“C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 9\Components” if the installer doesn’t put it there.

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it can be made to work on Mac…actually seems more complicated than getting it to work on Windows 10.

Start here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7295275?start=0&tstart=0

Here’s another report of someone getting it working under Windows 10:
Got my AlphaTrack installed under Win 10!

I did all of the workaround…it worked…and then it didn’t…I’d repeat it and it seemed to stay where it worked, then stop. For no reason.

Frustration set in and I had to move on.

you are genius.
x.o.x.o.
i love you bro…

Delighted to report that the Frontier AlphaTrack still works perfectly on Windows 10 with Cubase 13.

If updating from C12 to C13, with the Windows driver already installed, just copy the file AlphaTrackCN64.dll from
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 12\Components
to
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 13\Components

Even more delighted to report that Frontier Alphatrack ist working flawless on Windows 11 in Nuendo 13!
Don’t install the Windows driver - this is not working because you need a kernel mode driver!! Just plug your alphatrack to any usb port and you will find genuine windows midi in/out ports for connecting to the AlphaTrack64.dll within Studiosettings. I love my Alphatrack still after using it for 20 years now
Michael

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Fantastic!

(although I must admit to moving to the Presonus Faderport 2, due to the great MIDI Remote script)

Sadly not working in apple Silicon…but yes in Windows!!

OK I’ve checked this now, and without the driver, no MIDI ports appear on a fresh Windows 11 that has not had the driver installed.

Did you upgrade your PC from a Windows 10 installation with an existing, working AlphaTrack driver installed?

Yes, you are right- i Upgrade from Windows 10 with a working driver Installation.
When i rebooted, the First time i got. a Message from Windows Security, Kernel Isolation is Not working for the Alphatreck-driver, but i ignored this and now my alphatreck is working Like before!?

Do you mean “Core Isolation”? You can search for it in Settings to see if it’s enabled or not. I would not be concerned about that message in regard to the AlphaTrack driver though (it dates back to 2007). If it works then happy days!

I even got an blue screeen at next reboot :cowboy_hat_face: butignored it.
Now Alphatrack is working perfekt in NUendo 13, as i told before.
Btw.: I copied the ald Nuendo Driver to \Programs\Common Files\Steinberg\Shared Components ! This was the place i had it working before i upgraded from windows 8 to windows 11. May this make a differenze?
I dont know - just happy that it works.

This is where it is on my machine (Windows 10):


… but every upgrade of Cubase means I have to copy it into the new version’s Components folder. It makes more sense to have it in " \Programs\Common Files\Steinberg\Shared Components " as long as it works there.

I did a little bit of further investigation, and I’m putting the information here so it may help other AlphaTrack owners.

The AlphaTrack is a USB device but it is not a USB MIDI class-compliant device. This means that, if you plug it into a computer on which no AlphaTrack drivers exist, there will be no AlphaTrack MIDI ports created.

Without AlphaTrack MIDI ports, there is no possibility of using the device, not even by creating a custom MIDI Remote script.

The AlphaTrack MIDI ports are created by the AlphaTrack proprietary drivers, which are almost 20 years old and no longer supported.

If the AlphaTrack drivers are already installed and working on a Windows 10 machine, they may survive an OS upgrade to Windows 11 (thanks @planblue )

An attempt to install the AlphaTrack driver on Windows 11 will result in an error (“Can’t install on this version of Windows”, however it does copy the drivers to the location “C:\Program Files\AlphaTrack”. You can then plug in the device, and in Device Manager, locate the AlphaTrack device, and in Properties | Driver, choose Update Driver and browse to the location of the drivers above.

The final piece of the puzzle is to copy the AlphaTrackCN64.dll to “\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\Share Components”, start Cubase and configure the AlphaTrack in the usual manner (also thanks @planblue).

The result is a perfectly working AlphaTrack in Cubase 14 on Windows 11!