Elektron Musical Instruments

ok, when i plugged my mnm into my cheezy yamaha psr-510 midi keyboard 
things seemed great off the bat. i was recording MIDI from my 
keyboard and the notes were playing back inot it, I could even get 
different instruments out of the keyboard using PCHG and fancy jazz.

then i hit some shit, i don't know what, and all of the notes in my 
MIDI tracks turned to "---" ... and anytime i try to record new notes 
or lay notes down using grid based composing i get nothing but "---"

i have the keyboard's midi sending only to OUT (CH9) which goes into 
the mnm's IN (CH9, set for AUTO TRACK). 

i know there are a ton of MIDI settings on the MnM and just as many 
for my keyboard (i can rattle them off if it would help the 
situation), but has anyone experienced "---"??? i'm bumed because it 
worked so well straight off, and now it's a huge mess :[

thanks for any tips!
j.ordan

the manual has been read and i didn't see anything about "---" ... 
forgive me if i missed that useful page .. . . and please provide me 
with the number ;D

wtf

sorry gentz + ladiez

i just reset my keyboard and things seem to be working again.

which i tried more than once before  i posted. i have no ide awhat's 
goin on

i'm kind of scared to work in fear of pushing a nasty button again???

errg so i would still apreciate hints on "---" i guess ;D

<3
j.ordan

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "starpawz612"

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:17:38AM -0000, starpawz612 wrote:
>    the manual has been read and i didn't see anything about "---" ...
>    forgive me if i missed that useful page .. . . and please provide me
>    with the number ;D

so when you're not clearing patterns by mistake, you're clearing all tracks'
MIDI trigs? ;-)

"---" just means there's no note trigged on that step. it's typically
only seen in trigless steps (i.e. parameter tweaks only) and note-off
messages. it can be accessed by pressing FUNCTION+STEP; which will turn
the step LED to yellow as well. but this will only "---" a single step
on a single track.  I don't know how the hell you "---"ed all trigs
on all tracks.  even a pattern clear won't do this (it will wipe the trigs
out entirely).  if there were a melody clear then maybe this would happen;
but that would still only be on one track...

anyway, it sounds like a bug (or some feature I'm not aware of either).
if it occurs again, try to document what you did to make it happen and
report it to Elektron.

Joe

> 
> so when you're not clearing patterns by mistake, you're clearing 
> all the track's MIDI trigs? ;-)

haha yeah i'm gifted at destruction ;D

> anyway, it sounds like a bug (or some feature I'm not aware of 
> if it occurs again, try to document what you did to make it happen 

mmk glad i didn't fuck something up, i thought maybe i got my 
settings messed up somehow ... right now things are a little finicky, 
i can only send pgrm changes on some of the midi channels, i'm gunna 
try setting all the tracks to that channel and see what happens . . .

now for my next midi question:

i know you can set the MnM sequencer to control INT or INT + OUT or 
just OUT, but is it possible to set individual tracks to _not_ send 
midi data out? because I  don't think it's possible to ignore 
incoming data based on channel with my cheep midi keyboard (it seems 
to respond to all of them regardless of how i do its settings).

ok thanks a ton for the help, !!!

<3
j.ordan

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:45:48PM -0000, starpawz612 wrote:
>    mmk glad i didn't fuck something up, i thought maybe i got my
>    settings messed up somehow ... right now things are a little finicky,
>    i can only send pgrm changes on some of the midi channels, i'm gunna
>    try setting all the tracks to that channel and see what happens . . .

you mean send prgm changes to the MnM or program changes from the MnM?

>    now for my next midi question:
>    i know you can set the MnM sequencer to control INT or INT + OUT or
>    just OUT, but is it possible to set individual tracks to _not_ send
>    midi data out?

yes, go to the global menu and turn the channel base and span to "---";
that will set it so that the internal tracks don't respond to or send
on specific MIDI channels (but they'll still respond to the auto track).

>    ok thanks a ton for the help, !!!

I hope that works!  let me know if you need more help :-)

Joe