MIDI keyboard sometimes not been recognised by Dorico

Dorico
1

Hello, I am on a Mac.
Sometimes Dorico will not recognise my MIDI input device.
At the moment I have an M-Audio key station 32 connected via USB.
Dorico does not recognise any input.
I can quit and reopen Dorico and then it will take commands from the device.

My question: is there another way to trigger Dorico recognising the MIDI keyboard?
That is without quitting/reopening the application…
I could not find anything in the preferences, but there might be a little trick how to get the keyboard recognised??
In Sibelius there was a command „look for input devices“ or something like that… and it would reconnect the path to the MIDI keyboard.
Thank you for help.

2

No. You have to have the MIDI keyboard connected and turned on before you open Dorico.

3

Plug 'n Play is a known issue and we aim to get it solved in the next version.

4

thanks Ulf.

5

Maybe this isn’t your issue, but I’ve found sometimes I need to press return to enter input mode before Dorico will “listen” for MIDI. Then I can exit input mode and play my keyboard, and dorico will play that instrument. That’s tripped me up a few times, but once I figured it out, I restart Dorico a lot less frequently.

6

Also, what version of the Keystation 32 are you using? I had the V1 version and it would constantly cut out and then be unrecognized. Drove me crazy on a recent tour. I broke down and spent $49 on the V3 version and haven’t had any issues since.

7

Thank you pat_ and Fred,
my keystation mini-32 is version 1.10
I have the same issue with another eKey 49 though.
As I am on Mac, next time I will also try to do a refresh in Audio-Midi Setup control panel.

[edit]: refreshing in the Audio-Midi control panel does not make a difference, I tried yesterday. One does have to quit and restart Dorico in these cases…)