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Re: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard

2006-07-05 by Stefan Trippler

Maybe you should check first if there isn't a kind of midi filtering in your 
PC system.

Or you can connect the PEKs midi In and Out with a cable, thus eliminating 
all influences of external interface and Cubase, switch it to local off and 
then check if there are volume differences in comparison to local on mode 
without cable. I know that this is difficult to judge because you need to 
hit identic velocity values during playing.

I hardly can imagine that there's a reason for this inside the PEK, more 
likely in the external midi chain.

If a PEK and PER are chained for more polyphony they communicate via midi 
too and normally there are no volume differences between the units.

Another possibility could be in the global parameters. I don't have them in 
mind atm, maybe you can check if there are midi parameters switched off that 
could influence the reacting on external midi.

Greets
Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew Capon
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard


Hi Stefan,

Do you think It is faulty?

I got it yesterday so am thinking of ringing them for a replacement.

My evolver desktop does not act in this way.

Cheers

Andy




From: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Stefan Trippler
Sent: 05 July 2006 06:22
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard

Hi Andrew,

That's weird indeed. Don't know how this can happen.

Regards
Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Capon" <acapon@...>
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:13 AM
Subject: RE: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply.

I have the PEK connected to a pc via midi using Cubase SX3.

If I play something on the PEK and record the midi and audio, then play
the midi back to the PEK and record the audio in Cubase it is then
between 4 and 6 db lower!

Cheers

Andy

________________________________

From: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Stefan Trippler
Sent: 04 July 2006 21:56
To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard

No this is not normal, assuming that the notes that come via midi have
the
same velocity as the motes you send from the keyboard.

Maybe you can explain in detail what you mean with "driven by midi" ?

Stefan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Capon" <acapon@... <mailto:acapon%40sgi.com> >
To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DSI_Evolver%40yahoogroups.com>
>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:51 PM
Subject: [Evolver] PEK volume lower from midi than useing keyboard

Hi Guys,

My PEK has much lower volume output when driven by midi than when driven
by the keyboard, is this normal?

Cheers

Andy

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