I’m on Windows 11, running Cubase Elements 14 and Dorico Elements 4 at the same time. Everything works well except for the MIDI keyboard issue. I’ve two USB connected MIDI keyboards on my PC. Both keyboards work correctly when I use Cubase OR Dorico. But when I use both programs at the same time, only the app that I started first responds to the keyboards (the second loaded program does not). What I’m trying to do is to use one MIDI keyboard in Cubase and the other keyboard in Dorico, but this doesn’t seem to work. Do you have some suggestions to solve this problem?
Make sure the keyboards are only enabled in the apps you want to use them in.
Without special third-party drivers for specific MIDI devices, MIDI on Windows today only supports one app using any given MIDI device. This is because the connection is direct from the app to the driver.
That limitation goes away early next year with the new Windows MIDI Services stack where every MIDI device becomes multi-client.
Pete
Microsoft
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