Elektron Musical Instruments

I know Gert has had his indi hooked up the the MD and never said he had any
probs, and I think he was using the MD as the master.


On 4/26/04 4:26 PM, "Christopher Mitchell" wrote:

> Well, if I get a good firm grip on the aluminum side of the indigo and
> touch the metal plate firmly on the machinedrum it demonstrates that
> there is a groundloop between the midi out of the MD and the midi in of
> the Indigo... the loop becomes most obvious when something is going out
> the midi out when all signals, including hitting the MD transport
> buttons, make a little click/chirp.
> 
> So long as I have them, I don't want to choose between the two - but
> the problem only exists (as far as I can tell) in the configuration I
> want to use.  The indigo is not nearly as good of a master as the MD,
> but the MD syncs to the indigo without anything making any extra hums.
> It seems to be just between these particular ports.
> 
> So a) how do I just kill the loop?  b) which manufacturer do I contact
> about this first?
> 
> The room I have the items setup in is in about as bad of grounded
> electricity as any other average house, and I almost always lift the
> grounds of items I've got on.  In this case the loop is not occurring
> with electricity, so ground lifters don't make any difference.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
>