200e

Hi Chris,

I have not experienced this at all. But i guess you have used the 225e
MIDI a lot more than i have. In what situations does it hang? Always
when you are using many outputs at the same time or even while only
using one or a few?  Give me a crash scenario and i'll try it out on
mine.

johan



2007/4/17, Chris Muir <cbm@well.com>:

>
> What's everyone's take on the stability of the 225e MIDI section?
>
> I've had lots of problems with it, and last night I had a gig during
> which I had to reboot the 200e more than ten times because of the
> 225e hanging. It's very frustrating; almost enough to want to bring
> the power on reset out to a front panel switch so that I could reboot
> the 225e without power cycling the whole 200e.
>
> Do I just have a bad unit, or does this unit have more than its share of bugs?
>
> -C
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>
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>

I have had no issues with the 225e midi.  I've used it quite a bit 
(mostly the internal busses for polyphonic application)   Maybe you 
are just sending too much midi data at the same time?   Perhaps you 
can thin out the amount of midi data you are sending and see if that 
helps. Mine is firmware version 4


I have had the preset manager section of the 225e cause the 225e to 
lock up but that was when I was seeing how fast I could flip patches 
using cv.  

Hope you're able to resolve it.  


> 2007/4/17, Chris Muir <cbm@...>:
> >
> > What's everyone's take on the stability of the 225e MIDI section?
> >
> > I've had lots of problems with it, and last night I had a gig 
during
> > which I had to reboot the 200e more than ten times because of the
> > 225e hanging. It's very frustrating; almost enough to want to 
bring
> > the power on reset out to a front panel switch so that I could 
reboot
> > the 225e without power cycling the whole 200e.
> >
> > Do I just have a bad unit, or does this unit have more than its 
share of bugs?
> >
> > -C
> >
> > --
> > Chris Muir           | "There are many futures and only one 
status quo.

> > cbm@...         |  This is why conservatives mostly agree,
> > http://www.xfade.com |  and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

OK, so based on comments from Johan <JB> and Chris <wiardmodular>, as 
well as some private email, I probably just have something wrong with 
my 225e. That's actually good news, IMO.

Just for the record, my 225e setup is something like:

Note buss A, B & C (on MIDI Chan 1, 2 & 3), mirrored to Busses E, F & 
G. Buss H is on MIDI channel 8.

I'm using maybe ten CC busses, with speedlim-ited controller streams 
(from Max/MSP).

The 225e seems to be particularly vulnerable to hanging right after a 
preset is saved or restored or when freshly powered up.

Sending notes on MIDI channels other than Chan 1 (or perhaps busses 
other than A) right after saving/restoring/powering up increases the 
likelihood of a hang dramatically.

-C

-- 
Chris Muir           | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
cbm@well.com         |  This is why conservatives mostly agree,
http://www.xfade.com |  and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno

Hey Chris,
I think the most midd cc's I have sent at once is half of what you're  
doing but I
haven't had any hang ups yet.  I want to get numerology soon and  
really give
the 225e a good workout so i'll let you know if I get any weirdness  
then.

I'm this is the first thing you tried but did you refresh the  
software of both sections
of your 225e with the firmware card yet?

My aftertouch doesn't work and haven't found a way to set the depth  
of the
pitch bend range but I hope that is coming in a later firmware update.
Has anyone got the aftertouch to work on theirs?

bryan


On Apr 17, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Chris Muir wrote:

>
> OK, so based on comments from Johan <JB> and Chris <wiardmodular>, as
> well as some private email, I probably just have something wrong with
> my 225e. That's actually good news, IMO.
>
> Just for the record, my 225e setup is something like:
>
> Note buss A, B & C (on MIDI Chan 1, 2 & 3), mirrored to Busses E, F &
> G. Buss H is on MIDI channel 8.
>
> I'm using maybe ten CC busses, with speedlim-ited controller streams
> (from Max/MSP).
>
> The 225e seems to be particularly vulnerable to hanging right after a
> preset is saved or restored or when freshly powered up.
>
> Sending notes on MIDI channels other than Chan 1 (or perhaps busses
> other than A) right after saving/restoring/powering up increases the
> likelihood of a hang dramatically.
>
> -C
>
> -- 
> Chris Muir | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
> cbm@well.com | This is why conservatives mostly agree,
> http://www.xfade.com | and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno
>
> 



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At 12:43 PM -0700 4/17/07, Bryan Carrigan wrote:
>I'm this is the first thing you tried but did you refresh the 
>software of both sections
>of your 225e with the firmware card yet?

I'll give that a shot.


>My aftertouch doesn't work and haven't found a way to set the depth 
>of the
>pitch bend range but I hope that is coming in a later firmware update.
>Has anyone got the aftertouch to work on theirs?

I did some tests last year when I first got my 200e, and I seem to remember problems with aftertouch, too. I'll take another look at it.

-C

-- 
Chris Muir           | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
cbm@well.com         |  This is why conservatives mostly agree,
http://www.xfade.com |  and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno