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1) Click Add.
2) A list of drivers will now appear on your screen.
3) Click on ‘Unlisted or Updated Driver’.
4) Click on OK.
Insert the Roland Windows Drivers disk in your computer.
5) Click Browse.
6) Choose the appropriate disk drive by clicking on the arrow to the right of the drive selection, using the up and
down arrows to find your drive and clicking on the correct disk drive.
7) Click on the appropriate folder for your driver.
8) Click on OK. A screen will appear that will list the drivers contained in the folder you selected.
9) Click on the driver followed by OK.
A screen will appear that will request the COM Port connected to the Roland Serial MIDI Device. Choose the
appropriate setting with your mouse. ex. COM 2.
10) Click on OK.
Typically, you will get the following response:
‘The Roland Serial MIDI driver has been added. For the new driver to take effect you must quit and restart
Windows.’ In this case, choose Restart Now.
If your computer crashes now or upon boot up then you may have a conflict with another device in your system.
Move the other device to a different IRQ or Port Address setting and try again.
Now that the appropriate Windows driver has been installed for your Roland Serial MIDI Device, lets setup the
MIDI Mapper and run the device through a test.
III. MIDI Mapper Setup and Serial MIDI Device Test
MIDI Mapper Setup
Some applications will require a program called MIDI Mapper which is included with Windows. MIDI Mapper is a
setup program that controls MIDI routing between applications and sound cards. It also allows remapping of
program changes, drum note mapping and use of multiple sound cards in Windows applications. While setup of
the MIDI Mapper driver is optional, it is required for the Serial MIDI Device test we will be doing next in this guide.
This setup assumes you have the MIDI Mapper driver installed in Windows. Refer to the section on ‘Driver
Installation’ if you do not have the MIDI Mapper driver installed. The MIDI Mapper driver is included with Windows
on disk #4.
Use the following procedure to setup MIDI Mapper in Windows:
First, boot Windows using your typical procedure.
1) Use your mouse to select MAIN under the Windows heading at the top of your screen. You should now have
a highlighted window labeled ‘MAIN’.
2) Click on the arrows of the MAIN window until an icon labeled ‘Control Panels’ is available.
3) Double click on the Control Panels icon with your mouse.
4) A window labeled ‘Control Panels’ should now appear on the screen.
5) Click on the arrows of the Control Panel window until an icon labeled ‘MIDI Mapper’ is available.
Note: If this icon is not available then you do not have an installed MIDI device or the MIDI Mapper driver has
not been installed. Refer back to ‘Driver Installation’ earlier in this guide to install the appropriate driver.
6) Double click on the MIDI Mapper icon with your mouse.
7) Click on Setups under Show.
8) Click New.
9) Type in the desired name and description. ex. Name: Roland Serial MIDI, Description: Roland