MIDI problem

sebber · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: MIDI problem

Hey, hello everybody, it's been a while. I've had too much work to do. Anyway, I'm not very experienced with MIDI and I have trouble controlling a stage piano and a software synth with the G2s sequencers. So I finally physically plugged the G2s MIDI Out in the MIDI In to control Slot 2 from Slot 1 and it's the same thing: I should hear a scale in the 2nd slot but sometimes note changes are omitted and I hear the same pitch twice. I inserted a pulse module to change the length of the pulse from the clock to the MIDI Send, but that didn't help.
Guess it's a basic problem, can anyone light me up here?

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Fozzie · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:51 am Post subject:

Hey Sebber, I think it's due to the very short notes you are sending. Help says this about the note-send module's trigger input:

sebber · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:14 am Post subject:

Thanks, but that's not it. I forgot to mention that I tried that, too.

mosc · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

To fix it, take the Gate/Trigger out from the sequencer to clock the MIDI out module. This solves the problem for me.

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Fozzie · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:10 am Post subject:

sebber · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:24 am Post subject:

Hm, that's what I tried. Are there differences in the quality of MIDI-cables? I thought they work or they don't. I'll try another one and tell you about it. Thanks already!

Fozzie · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:33 am Post subject:

On a re-read of this thread, I saw you already mentioned the pulse lengthening in your first post. Missed that, sorry Embarassed

. It would be weird if the midi cable were to blame, but bad cables can cause all kinds of strange behaviour, therefore I'd check another before doing anything else. If it's not that, it would be really strange. It should be very well possible to send 16th notes at 120 bpm over midi without hickups.

mosc · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject:

I think it's a module evaluation situation. If you use the same oscillator to clock the sequencer that you use to send the MIDI, then you run the risk that the MIDI get clocked out before the sequencer changes. You could run the clock to the MIDI send module through a couple of inverters to delay it.

sebber · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:26 am Post subject:

Well, I thought I did do it with the event button row, but obviously I did something else. Hm.
Anyway, it works. Howard's trick works as well, but only when I use one inverter, not a couple of them (2 or 4 that is, maybe it works with 3).

Thanks everybody, especially Howard, you saved me from 2 hours of really boring patching.