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Don't have a solution for the hum but I can tell you that I use a cheap, thin, non-shielded, 20ft long midi cable for my control one and my setup is dead silent, so the quality of the cable probably is not the cause.

"Dr. Mabooze" wrote:

Thanks for all the input so far.

The cable I use (plugged to the ctrl one jack of the 2101) is a new MIDI cable
with all 5 pins wired, so the control one gets its voltage and apart from the
hum works as it should (display, program switches, expression pedal). It's
thinner but shorter than the original cable I had with my first 2101. I
didn't open the plugs yet, should the plug housing be grounded? Should the
cable be shielded? Does anybody know the pin assignment for the MIDI cable -
on which pins is the voltage and how much should it be?

How can I tell a high quality MIDI cable from a bad one?

I agree that difference in grounding or wrong grounding is often the cause of
hum but I can't see how that could happen in this case (except if the MIDI
cable had a grounding/shielding problem - which I don't know). The devices
are plugged into the same circuit and I had my old 2101 and control one
working without problems at the same place.

Thanks again,
Helmut