Eleven Rack Editor - Error Initializing MIDI Engine

[Daveporter33765]

I removed the 11R driver and reinstalled per the instructions of an earlier post. I also added a new midi configuration as an earlier poster recommended. No luck with either fix, I am still getting the “Error initializing Eleven Rack MIDI Engine” message.

If anyone else has any luck finding a solution please post it.

Thanks!

[Daveporter33765]

I just installed the ILoc Manager, the Eleven Rack Drivers and the Eleven Rack Editor on a fresh install of Big Sur on my MacBook Air. Everything installed fine. The Eleven Rack Drivers are working fine. However, the Eleven Rack Editor is not, I am getting the Failure to Initialize the Midi Engine message here too.

Is there something I am missing that needs to be set in the Eleven Rack Settings on the unit itself? Also, I seem to remember there being some kind of Console command that could be executed on a Mac to resolve this problem from long ago when I first bought the Eleven Rack and this same problem came up…does anyone remember anything about this?

Thanks!

[ac30fan]

Originally Posted by Daveporter33765

I just installed the ILoc Manager, the Eleven Rack Drivers and the Eleven Rack Editor on a fresh install of Big Sur on my MacBook Air.

I don’t see anywhere that Big Sur is supported


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[Daveporter33765]

Originally Posted by ac30fan

I don’t see anywhere that Big Sur is supported


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You are correct. I was mistaken. Unfortunately I am unable to get the Eleven Rack Editor on any of the Macs with Catalina either. I get the Midi error on each.

I loaded Mojave on a spare external drive on one of my iMacs and was able to get the Editor to work fine.

Hopefully Avid will update the Editor to work properly on Catalina since they updated the driver.

[johnson512n28]

In case someone else is still trying to use this on Catalina and getting the "MIDI engine" error, I was able to run the Eleven Rack Editor after the following steps:

- Disconnect the USB
- Open Audio MIDI Setup (Cmd-Space > "Audio MIDI Setup")
- Window > Show MIDI Studio
- Select and remove the greyed-out eleven rack MIDI device
- UNINSTALL the Eleven Rack drivers
- Reboot
- Connect the Eleven Rack via USB, which will install the MIDI device properly
- Eleven Rack Editor should now run properly
- Reinstall the 11R drivers (if you want to use it as an interface)
- Reboot

[Johnk241]

On a windows 11 system I solved the error loading 11 Rack MIDI problem by disabling the "High Definition Audio Device" in the "Sound, video and game Controllers tab of the device manager." That is a Microsoft device. I use my 11 rack as my audio interface and the audio output for all sounds coming from my computer.

The "Intel(R) Display Audio" device for my monitor speakers did not cause a problem.

[karl.horizont]

The Eleven Editor worked fine on my Dell XPS under Windows 10, but not after I upgraded to Win 11. ProTools 11 workes fine from the beginning.

When I disable all other audio devices (except Avid Eleven Rack) in Windows Device Manager, the Rack Editor works. At the moment I enable another one, it is not working again. Looks like the Rack Editor doesn't like other Audio devices under Windows 11. Since I do not need other audios device while using the eleven editor, I can live with that.

[Grandude1]

Go to device manager >Universal Serial Bus Controllers, click on every hub and controller with a power management tab and make sure everything is unchecked. For some reason when you upgrade, they get checked to allow the computer to turn them off. No problem running all of my usb devices now.