Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Sorry to be dense here but these message are standard midi but like you hint if the low level midi implementation isnt expecting them then this leads to mayhem.

I am making my own BCR adapter for the Miniak.

When my master keyboard went temporarily awry (breaking its USB input does that ...) I plugged in a Yamaha piano and imagine my surprise when my software went to rats.

Some debugging later showed indeed 0xF8 was to blame.
I educated my software about this (having bought the MIDI for Professionals for £0.01p + £2.75 p&P) and now I dont have these problems.

So if you want something to remove these pesky 0xF8/FEs and dont want to use a PC to filter them we could probably knock up a small arduino gizmo to filter this for you.

Sorry if I misunderstood your plight.

Regards

Steve H

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "electron8000" <electron8000@...> wrote:
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> > I'm not quite sure whether your PSR310's FE and/or F8 are to blame.
> > What happens if you feed the BCN44 MIDI messages that don't include any FE/F8?
> > E.g. you could use the "MIDI Keyboard" window in MIDI Tools to set up a continuous "arpeggio" (RIGHT-click on the piano keys to make them stick), route these signals to the BCN44 via your soundcard, and loop these signals back to the soundcard and MIDI Tools. If this ALSO produces hiccups, you'll know the problem is NOT your PSR310's FE and F8.
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> I used the following setup now:
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> Soundcard MIDI-Out -> BCN44 MIDI-In, BCN44 MIDI-Out -> Soundcard MIDI-In
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> I then tried out different settings in the virtual midi-keyboard in MIDITools. Pressing and releasing single keys via left click, also Arpeggio via right click. In any case i now got correct and undelayed MIDI-signals in the MIDI input messages window. So i think it's my keyboards FE/F8 signals to blame. Seems as if my soundcard can correctly handle those FE/F8 signals from the keyboard but the BCN44 can't :/.
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> electron8000
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