Cannot select "MIDI Preferred Device"

[reiuther]

Hi Guys

I have an ABIT An7 with Soundstorm

I cant select or set any device for MIDI Music Playback under Audio in Control Panel. It sticks blank, i cant change it! (even if I set NVIDIA DLS Synthesizer or Sint. softw. tab by Microsoft, apply an then: blank.) So i dont have a Preferred device setted.

I have sound (mp3,games,flash) but if a website uses MIDI embended, I cant hear the sound. I use Firefox with Quick Time Plugin (Seems that quicktime uses the settings in the Control Panel Audio, but since I cant set any preferred device....). Using Internet Explorer is the same thing.

I can play midi in winamp, since it let me choose the midi bank. But in the webpage i cant.

So I guess that is that little setting that forbid me to hear the midi's in the webpages. Ive bought an eletric bass and there is so great sites with tabs and useful stuff, but all of them uses MIDI embended and I cant hear nothing!

Is there any solution besides formatting?

Ive already tested:
a) new drivers,
b) a different soundboard (an Audigy 2 ZS, same problem: lists the 3 or 4 MIDI synthesizers but i cant set any one of them as preferred),
c) deleted in the registry all the 'midi entries' (now it is MIDI: wdmaud.drv)

None of then solved.

Thanks in advance for your help. Sorry for my bad english!

Ps: Here´s a image for my Audio in Control Panel. I cant select any Preferred Device under MIDI Music Playback.

[reiuther]

Hi Guys

Solvede my problem, i will post here for anyone who might have. Founded at: http://www.hostingforum.ca/509114-can-t-save-midi-music-playback.html

Here's:

ken
Re: Can't save midi music playback.

I found a remady for it. Hope this might help any one else.
Run regedit
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

There should be a string value there named 'wavemapper'. This was
missing on my machine.
(in my, it was not)

I simply created this string - create a new string value with name
'wavemapper' and data as 'msacm32.drv'.

After doing this the playback device selection persists when it is
changed. I was also missing the 'midimapper' value. The data for this
key should be 'midimap.dll'.
<-- Thats what was missing in my registry.

So, simple add a key midimapper with midimap.dll as value

Anyway, thanks to Ken =)