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Title: 3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: hembo on October 13, 2003, 05:07:47 pm

I have a Microsoft MultiMedia keyboard, however the MultiMedia bit does not function with MC9....!  Any help would be greatly appreciated....     ?

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: MachineHead on October 13, 2003, 06:15:12 pm

Got an after market sound card?

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: hembo on October 14, 2003, 03:26:08 am

I'm running with a Creative SB Audigy ES.  Basic but it has been no problem to date.....  Should I change....?? :-\

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: kiwi on October 14, 2003, 04:06:36 am

Quote from: hembo on October 13, 2003, 05:07:47 pm

I have a Microsoft MultiMedia keyboard, however the MultiMedia bit does not function with MC9....!  Any help would be greatly appreciated....     ?

Have you installed the IntelliType software?  If you have, you can set up the keys to run specific functions.  This was discussed in another thread, (I think search for keyboard and you might find it, it was recent.  I remember posting a solution, just don't remember what it is right now. If I find it, I'll post it here.)

kiwi

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: MachineHead on October 14, 2003, 04:09:11 am

No, no. I was curious to see if you had lost volume control from your keyboard with an after market sound card. After I installed a new card I had this happen.

As for the keyboard....

Does it work with Windows Media Player?

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: kiwi on October 14, 2003, 04:11:11 am

This was the thread name... I think...

Media Keys on MS Multimedia Keyboard

MachineHead, does your sound card support volume control?  I know that many cards don't.  That might have stopped your volume controls from working.

kiwi

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: hembo on October 14, 2003, 04:15:50 am

Volume works ok on the keybord.  Only short of the Play, Pause, Next & Previous buttons.

Tried it with Win Media Player, all buttons function.

Have tried the Intellitype options, however cannot find an option other than the "standard" settings for Next, Play, Pause etc....

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: kiwi on October 14, 2003, 05:28:42 am

If you find that other thread, there were explicit "custom" commands in there to get the Play/Stop/Prev/Next working.

kiwi

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: loraan on October 14, 2003, 09:17:31 am

I have found that Windows 2000 (and XP?) doesn't seem to handle media keys properly when more than one keyboard is plugged in. For example, I have a wireless USB keyboard with media keys and a wired PS/2 port keyboard without. If the PS/2 keyboard is plugged in, the media keys don't work on the wireless keyboard--for any application, not just MC. By the same token, if I plug the wireless keyboard into my laptop, the media keys also don't work, ostensibly because the laptop's keyboard is also "plugged in".

I guess I'm saying that this could be a Windows issue, not an MC issue.

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: hembo on October 14, 2003, 04:01:57 pm

Kiwi......  Thanks a bundle....  Found your earlier post and have now gotten all buttons to function.

Great software and one of the best forums I've used.

Just need to get my iPOd back from repair, then I'm off...... ;)

Hembo

Title: Re:3rd Party Keyboards with MC9
Post by: kiwi on October 14, 2003, 04:20:37 pm

Hey Hembo,

glad you found it... sorry I didn't post a link, I'd jotted down the name of the thread because I was trying to find a solution at the time, and it was still written down on the white board.

aren't the iPod's great... hopefully yours will come back soon.

kiwi