Have you used the live help?

Are you sure other midi is working outside the software? What is that set to in the Control Panel. Go back and ensure that's the same in Band in a Box.

The UAC settings on Vista have caused a lot of grief, shut it off.

The Dxi, once envoked, has a control panel of its own and should be in the first slot. After it's there make sure the volume sliders are all at 127, for some strange reason they get set to zero sometimes.

If you plug and unplug other stuff, always put USB devices no matter what, into the same usb port. That is another Microsoft bug the size of a tropical cockroach.

Band in a Box produces two sets of output.

1. Sound, like playing a cd, RealDrums, realtracks, and audio recording.
2. Midi sounds.

Try an all midi file or all Realtracks file.

Normally installing and uninstalling is a total waste of time.

In Vista some things won't work at all under system reset, etc. It's the UAC that stops it from working.

I think MS should upgrade me to Windows 7 and give me money for the grief Vista caused.

The other thing is once you get a working setup write down all the settings so you have them for later.

NOTE : The VSC anything Dxi or not will not work in 64 bit mode. If you thought it did it was something else.

John Conley
Musica est vita