BCR problem... I think

[misteron]

Hi all,
During a DJ set last Saturday my BCR continuously lost contact with Live.
Approx. once per 2tracks!!
I've had BCR for a couple years and hardly ever a problem.

Anyone had a similar issue?

My only suspicion is that some conflict between MIDI Map and Instant Map is causing the issue.
Such conflicts were crashing Live on me not long ago but seem to be fixed now (see here)
But it is quite different and very inconsistent so it's hard to tell.

In the past BCR has lost contact with Live 2 or 3 times in the studio, and once at a gig.
Power-cycling the BCR fixed it each time, and there was months in between each incident.

My studio setup and stage setup is marginally different but neither ever changes.
Studio:
-BCR to unpowered hub (along with pK, trackball, powered HDDs)
-Hub to right USB port of MBP

Stage:
-BCR direct USB connection to either left or right USB port (left side last Saturday
-No other USB devices.

Laptop is always running from mains.
MOTU UL3 is always running from FW.

So I'm finding it hard to find a pattern here.

Any help / advice / questions are very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ron

[misteron]

No guesses?
would love to get this sorted before the gig this weekend if at all poss

[nbinder]

Use the search function, I remember a thread about exactly that problem not so long ago.

Have to go to work, you'll have to search yourself.

[hangar17]

have you tried powering your usb hub?

[Warminstrel]

Can get some really quick responses from the yahoo group:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/bc2000/

some seriously clever midi CC speaking types there...

[misteron]

Thanks I'll check out that Yahoo group too.

Would powering the hub make any difference seing as the BCR is mains powered anyway.
I guess it doesn't mater coz I don't use the hub on stage, just direct usb to lappy