Indyman

11 hours ago, msmcleod said:

Cakewalk just returns what Windows tells it the name is called, which is in turn taken from the drivers.

Are you using MME or UWP as your driver mode (under MIDI/Playback and Recording in Preferences) ?

I've found the name changes depending on which driver mode you're using. 

Personally, I've never got UWP to work reliably for me, with half the ports missing (probably my old MIDI interfaces)  so I always stick to MME for MIDI.

msmcleod - you sir are a genius!  I went back and sure enough I had driver mode set to UWP.  When I changed it to MME all of the Midi port names appeared (see screenshot).  I'm marking this one SOLVED - thanks again 😎  Now I'm going to make a backup!

Hi Folks,

I had to reinstall my entire music PC (long story) recently and of course all of my software (since I didnt have a recent backup!😡)  Of course that included both SONAR Platinum and Cakewalk by Bandlab.   Weird thing is, after reinstall the ports for my MOTU Midi-express XT only show up in Preferences as un-named Midi ports (see first pic).  What's strange is that in other applications the names appear correctly, as in Dimension Pro below, even plugins within Cakewalk; also before the re-install the ports were showing up correctly as named ports.  I uninstalled and re-installed SONAR, Cakewalk by Bandlab and my MOTU drivers but same thing.  I can't tell which port is which or make assignments.  Anyone see this before?