Windows®,
Windows XP®, Windows Vista® and Windows 7® are
registered products of the Microsoft® Cooperation.
The General MIDI System Level 1 and Level 2 specifications (GM, also GM1
and GM2) are owned by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA).
XG™ is a registered trademark of Yamaha Corporation.
GS™ is a trademark of Roland Corporation.
Installation
Old version uninstall:
- If
you have installed MIDI Locator older than 1.13:
You should uninstall it first, there is a file named uninstall.exe in the old application folder, just execute it.
The uninstall.exe also removes registry entries which were made for components. But leaves the user settings in the registry. This was done because newer versions of MIDI Locator were planed to use them. Since MIDI Locator 1.13 uses completly new registry keys, this old entries would remain in the registry and never be used (as long as you don't reinstall an old version of MIDI Locator). If you want to delete them, delete the registry tree "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Rittberger Applications". You don't need to do so, and you should not touch your registry, if you don't exactly know what you do, or you could damage your system!!!
- If
you have installed MIDI Locator free 1.13 or 1.14:
Delete the old MIDI Locator free 1.13 or 1.14 directory (or save it, because the new version is no more free ware, and barried after 10 days of work).
- If
you have installed MIDI Locator full version 1.14 and purchased a Key-Code
for version 1.15:
Keep your old MIDI Locator directory, and just copy the new MIDI Locator.exe 1.15 into the old directory (the new sound library is a little bit smaller, especially the grand piano isn't delivered anymore - so you keep it).
New version
install:
MIDI Locator version 1.15 runs on Windows XP®,
Windows Vista®
and Windows 7®.
Create a new directory and copy the downloaded MIDI Locator_1_15.zip content
into it.
You can start MIDI Locator by executing MIDI Locator.exe in this directory.
The new version comes without redistributable system components
of Windows®
to keep the download small, since the enclosed sound library's size is
15MB, and most PCs have those redistributables already installed.
Problems:
- If
you get an error message when starting MIDI Locator.exe:
Windows XP®:
Probably you need the redistributables of DirectX® (at least Version 8) or "Microsoft's C++ 2008-Redist-Package" (MIDI Locator is written in C++).
If DirectX® is missing or the installed version is out of date, MIDI Locator will give you a message directly telling you what's wrong about DirectX®.
Here you can get an updated version of DirectX®.
If the C++ package is missing, MIDI Locator will raise an error message telling something about "application configuration wrong". This message is actually raised by Windows® and can't be catched by MIDI Locator.
Download the Microsoft C++ 2008 Redist package (vcredist_x86.exe), execute the downloaded package and start MIDI Locator again.
Windows Vista®, Windows 7:
On Windows Vista® and Windows 7® only "Microsoft C++ 2008 Redist package (vcredist_x86.exe)" could be missing, since Vista and Windows 7 come with DirectX.
On a blank Vista or Windows 7 machine, "Microsoft's C++ 2008-Redist" is missing by guarantee!
Download the Microsoft C++ 2008 Redist package (vcredist_x86.exe), execute the downloaded package and start MIDI Locator again.
- If
you start MIDI Locator the first time and it seems to hang:
Probably you tried to move a window, or tried to minimize MIDI Locator while it converts the delivered soundlibrary from .mp3 to .wav. If this happens, MIDI Locator isn't updating the display untill the convertion is finished. The convertion still runs in the background, only the progress bar isn't moving anymore. Just wait the 3 minutes until regular convertion is compelete. If you decided to kill the process with the process killer, there is no problem. Just restart MIDI Locator again. It will recognize which files were completly converted, and which were not. It will convert the remaining soundlibrary files and start normal.