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Why Is Power Management Important?
We strongly recommend to deactivate all power saving options in Microsoft Windows in order to ensure an interruption-free operation of MADRIX.
Microsoft Windows operating systems offer a wide variety of power management options. In most cases, PCs, laptops, notebooks, and netbooks benefit from a longer battery life if a good power management is in use. But certain problems might occur because of computer power savings nevertheless:
| ▪ | After a while your MADRIX KEY cannot be identified by the software anymore. |
| ▪ | Your hardware interfaces are suddenly deactivated. |
Make sure to set up power-saving settings especially if you are using:
| ▪ | A MADRIX KEY [USB dongle] |
| ▪ | MIDI controllers [via USB] |
| ▪ | USB hardware interfaces [such as MADRIX NEO] |
| ▪ | A notebook/laptop to run MADRIX |
Additionally:
| ▪ | Make sure to change the USB power settings. |
| ▪ | Especially for notebooks, we recommend to activate the High performance power plan. |
This setting will make sure that your notebook or laptop will have all its potential performance available for MADRIX.
| ▪ | In Windows, select Start > Control Panel > Power Options, and change the power plan to High performance [You might need to click on Show additional plans]. |
How To Change USB Power Settings
| ▪ | In Windows, select Start > Control Panel > Power Options > Change power-saving settings |
| ▪ | Click Change advanced power settings |
| ▪ | Especially the USB settings are important. Disable the suspend settings! |
| ▪ | Change any other settings that might interrupt the operation as required [Choose Change advanced power settings]. |