The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, <christone@o...> wrote:
> Does your AN1X lock up occasionally - ?!  Mine does â€" or, 
> rather, it has just started to.  Never did before.  Wonder 
> why?

Not recently, no. The only time my AN1x has 'locked up' was during the 
occasional SysEx dump from AN1xEdit. This occurred more frequently with my =
old 
Opcode Studio 128x (multi-port MIDI Interface/Patchbay) than it did using a=
n Opcode 
Translator Pro (2x2 MIDI Interface with seperate printer & modem ports.) I =
haven't had 
any problems to speak of with an Emagic MT4 but then again I seldom use AN1=
xEdit 
any longer.

The beauty of the Translator Pro was that the AN1x was the *only* device ru=
nning off 
the modem port and my hw sampler was the only device on the printer port - =
no 
sharing of the MIDI bandwidth between multiple devices on one port!!! 
 
> 
> Seems to happen only when I am pushing it hard, and in ways 
> in which it has not been pushed before.  Specifically, I have 
> recently discovered the joys of setting Tempo to MIDI 
> alongside a software sequencer.  
> 

I can imagine if you are synchronizing the Arp/Seq to MIDI Clock *and* you =
are 
making _wild_ tempo changes it would be easy to overrun the AN1x - or any o=
ther 
hardware synth for that matter.

> But the combination of that setting, a powerful voice and, 
> generally, live filter/res & FX tweaking sometimes produces 
> what I can only describe as a a lock-up - at some point the 
> controls 'freeze' and I cannot change the patch.  The only 
> way I've found of getting round it is to switch off and on.  
> 

Again, I suppose it depends on how much real time data you are transmitting=
 to the 
AN1x simulataneously. MIDI CC's take up no where near the amount of bandwid=
th 
SysEx packets do but, if you're sending multiple MIDI CCs (Mod Wheel, Pitch=
 Bend, AT, 
74 FC, 71 Rez, etc.) while syncing tempo and effects - anything is possible=
!

> Anyone else had this?  Is it a problem?  Any way of avoiding 
> it?
> 

Try easing up on the amount of real time messages and see where the thresho=
ld is 
for your MIDI Set-up. Just out of curiousity - what type of MID Interface a=
re you 
using?

Jon