MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver

Mister Hayman
Mister Hayman Member Posts: 59 Member
in Traktor Software & Hardware

Anyone had any experience of the error 'MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver' and have silver bullter for it. Often causes a complete freeze of Traktor and the host computer has to rebooted to be able to restart

NIHardwareService.txt

Traktor.

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  • Mister Hayman
    Mister Hayman Member Posts: 59 Member
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/172419#Comment_172419

    I've since bought a new machine and although the fatal hang→ crash has happened once, there wasn't the coinciding 'MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver' Event Viewer Error.

    I have case open with NI about the crash. But I wont be looking for a silver bullet to the 'MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver' issue as its gone away as far as I'm concerned.

    I've since patched Traktor to 4.0.2 .. so who knows,,, maybe that made the problem go away.

    I had to move things fwd with the experimental new machine build because this problem had been hanging around for so long and t was getting majorly embarrassing at gigs :)

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  • Uwe303
    Uwe303 Moderator Posts: 4,003 mod

    Hello,

    this seems to refer to the bomes midi driver that comes with the native harware agend for the keyboards daw midi port. You could try to install this sdk here:

    BMIDI Virtual MIDI SDK – Bome Software

    have you st some security stuff like UAC to max?

  • Mister Hayman
    Mister Hayman Member Posts: 59 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/167663#Comment_167663

    cheers for the reply, so does this mean its nothing to do with Traktor?

  • Uwe303
    Uwe303 Moderator Posts: 4,003 mod

    Not directly, I would say, do you use a native instruments traktor controller maybe? That error is definitely very strange and makes no sense to me with the info we have so far.

  • Mister Hayman
    Mister Hayman Member Posts: 59 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/168272#Comment_168272

    yeh "..Often causes a complete freeze of Traktor .." :) Has been logged with NI for a few weeks, no resolution as such as of yet.

  • Martiniix_NI
    Martiniix_NI Customer Care Posts: 349 mod

    Any update? @Mister Hayman

  • Mister Hayman
    Mister Hayman Member Posts: 59 Member
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/172419#Comment_172419

    I've since bought a new machine and although the fatal hang→ crash has happened once, there wasn't the coinciding 'MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver' Event Viewer Error.

    I have case open with NI about the crash. But I wont be looking for a silver bullet to the 'MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver' issue as its gone away as far as I'm concerned.

    I've since patched Traktor to 4.0.2 .. so who knows,,, maybe that made the problem go away.

    I had to move things fwd with the experimental new machine build because this problem had been hanging around for so long and t was getting majorly embarrassing at gigs :)

  • Martiniix_NI
    Martiniix_NI Customer Care Posts: 349 mod

    Thanks for sharing! @Mister Hayman

  • Olisil
    Olisil Member Posts: 1 Newcomer

    Since August I have frequent freeze/crashes, often several a day. Going crazy about finding the reason. Logs and procedures to find out mostly result in something like "an unexpected shutdown happened". No ******!
    The latest suspect is NIHardwareService" which in the event viewer says "MIDIDevice: Unable to unlock BMIDI DLL/driver". It was years ago I even used any NI software or hardware. Really strange if a NI driver decides to make hell of my work days every day since august this year.

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