NT4 style wave drivers have limited support in Vista and beyond. More accurately wave drivers should be supported (they're needed for TAPI support), but mixer drivers aren't NT4 style MIDI drivers should still be supported. Larry -----Original Message----- From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene Muzychenko Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:55 AM To: Revan Foly Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Starting to dev. a virtual Midi Port Hello Revan, > what exactly do you mean by "not supported"? As Vista was released, I noticed that it does not support installable (via Drivers32/Userinstallable.drivers) user-mode audio (wave) drivers properly. But today I have compiled a tiny fake user-mode MIDI driver DLL and installed it in 32-bit Win7 SP1. It seems like Win7 loads and calls the driver correctly, MIDI application see it. So maybe Vista had some bugs or MIDI drivers are supported differently that wave ones. Regards, Eugene ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.com/ ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.com/