Need a midi guru's help with hung notes
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:50 pm
Hoping someone here can help me sort this out.
My set up includes a couple virtual synths but also a couple rack synths - an MS2000BR and an A-Station. Instead of recording audio from these for loops, I decided it would be better to run them as midi modules, instead recording the midi data only and sending midi to them real time for the loops.
Here's the chain:
CME VX70 -> JL Cooper MSB+ -> Motu 828mkII -> MacBook Pro running Ableton (8.1)
There's also a launchpad and fcb1010 coming in on USB at the moment.
JL Cooper inputs:
1 - a merged signal from input 2 and input 8 goes to the motu
2 - CME in, also set to receive signal from input 1 (the motu, in the event i ever get auto faders working)
3 - ms2000br, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 3
4 - a station, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 4
5 - alesis qsr, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 5
6 - out to ms2000br receiving signal from input 1 (motu/ableton) on channel 6
7 - out to a station receiving signal from input 1 (motu/ableton) on channel 7
8 - Roland TMC6 in
Eventually input 1 is going to be coming from an external merge box as I have a few more controllers i need to send into ableton, so this will be an output from a midi solutions m8 containing minimally inputs from the cme, an fcb1010 and the tmc-6.
So I can record the midi data, loop it and send it back out to the ms2000 and the a-station fine, it's all working as it should. But every so often, mostly on the a-station it seems, i'm getting hung notes. The JL Cooper has a panic button which makes the hung notes stop. I am trying to figure out the source of the hung notes though. Is it likely to be me configuring something wrong in Ableton? The CME sending incorrect data? Or the A station / MS 2000 buggering up?
The hung notes never occur on the virtual synths.
Any input would be appreciated, this will really kill my workflow if I can't chain things like this...
My set up includes a couple virtual synths but also a couple rack synths - an MS2000BR and an A-Station. Instead of recording audio from these for loops, I decided it would be better to run them as midi modules, instead recording the midi data only and sending midi to them real time for the loops.
Here's the chain:
CME VX70 -> JL Cooper MSB+ -> Motu 828mkII -> MacBook Pro running Ableton (8.1)
There's also a launchpad and fcb1010 coming in on USB at the moment.
JL Cooper inputs:
1 - a merged signal from input 2 and input 8 goes to the motu
2 - CME in, also set to receive signal from input 1 (the motu, in the event i ever get auto faders working)
3 - ms2000br, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 3
4 - a station, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 4
5 - alesis qsr, set to receive signal from input 2 on channel 5
6 - out to ms2000br receiving signal from input 1 (motu/ableton) on channel 6
7 - out to a station receiving signal from input 1 (motu/ableton) on channel 7
8 - Roland TMC6 in
Eventually input 1 is going to be coming from an external merge box as I have a few more controllers i need to send into ableton, so this will be an output from a midi solutions m8 containing minimally inputs from the cme, an fcb1010 and the tmc-6.
So I can record the midi data, loop it and send it back out to the ms2000 and the a-station fine, it's all working as it should. But every so often, mostly on the a-station it seems, i'm getting hung notes. The JL Cooper has a panic button which makes the hung notes stop. I am trying to figure out the source of the hung notes though. Is it likely to be me configuring something wrong in Ableton? The CME sending incorrect data? Or the A station / MS 2000 buggering up?
The hung notes never occur on the virtual synths.
Any input would be appreciated, this will really kill my workflow if I can't chain things like this...