Hi Bart, I've been following this thread because there's a used Novation 61SL on Craigslist right now and I'm thinking of buying it. A couple of observations here, first no need to keep uninstalling/reinstalling Biab. I've never had to do that in the last 7 or 8 years on 4 or 5 different computers. Whatever issues I've had Biab has never, repeat never been the culprit. It's simply the settings not some install problem.

Note my sig below, I also have Win 7 64 bit. Just for you I just dusted off my 3 year old Evolution MK461c controller. This was the last one under Evo's name before M-Audio took them over. M-Audio's driver will work with this controller if somebody ever needed to update but it was not necessary for me. This computer is 18 months old and I never set it up with my Evo so this was new for me. I plugged it in and Win 7 immediately saw it and installed drivers. I then opened Biab (important point, any time you change the controller or change ASIO settings, Biab has to be closed and then reopened). Anyway, Biab sees the Evo, I selected it and everything's good including Sampletank. Oh yeah, I set the Evo to Channel 5. I'm using my Sonic Cell as the interface, it's has it's own ASIO driver and the latency was too high so I went in and changed it. I forgot to close Biab first and that caused all sorts of glitches but when I closed and reopened it all is good.

I had my computer custom built for me and the guy set me up as admin on bootup so that's not an issue. If this helps you when I click on "computer" and double click my C drive bb shows up right near the top of the list. Biab does not write to the registry so it doesn't go in either "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86).

If you set your system up exactly the same as mine but that Novation still doesn't work then I need to know since I'm right on the cusp of buying one. Personally, I seriously doubt it's a problem with the Novation, it's in your Biab settings. To summarize:

1. bb shows up in your root C drive directory, not in either of the Program Files.
2. Win 7 automatically installs the controller.
3. Inside Biab your Novation is the input and your interface is the output.
4. Select ASIO and it's "Always On".
5. Close/reopoen Biab.
6. Select a softsynth as your default, if it's not GM then select an instrument on Ch 5 inside your plugin window, if it is GM then you can use Biab's instrument select window for the "Thru" track.
7. Put your Novation to channel 5.
8. Play the Novation.

That what I just did and my Evo works fine. Again, I had not set it up with my new computer until just now.

Forgot, make sure your Novation is turned on first before you open Biab.

Additionally, to clarify the "Route Thru to Midi Driver" thing, the window that opens says clearly if you're using ASIO, that setting is ignored.

So many little things to mention, I've never used any commercial A/V software, I use MS Security Essentials, AVG, Malwarebytes and Spybot. All free and they've all worked for me for years and years. So it's possible I guess, that your McAfee might be the culprit.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 01/06/13 05:16 PM.