odd... if it works in commander, it should work unchanged in a talker...
so, a few questions:
a) which factory setup are you running?
b) which version of EigenD?
c) if you have commander running, when you activate the talker do you get any error messages?
( I think it echoes errors from talkers, but I may be wrong)
diagnosing...
first step, my suspicion would be that the midi input talker is not being triggered... have you tested this, for example by just trying to trigger the metronome?
next step, the best thing is to take a look at the EigenD logs, you can then just look for errors.
if you post them somewhere (dropbox etc?) then I could take a look.
(basically we need EigenD.0.log AFTER you have tried to activate it from the midi input talker and ONLY do that, we don't want to hunt thru a 12GB log file looking for one line :))
you can also run EigenD from the command line with
EigenD --stdout --debug
this will put the log to the terminal window and also display more info, this is quite handy, as you can then see immediately, when you send in your midi input, if any errors are cropping up.
Mark