Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On 2/25/05 4:19 PM, "lifeistheformofenergy"
<lifeistheformofenergy@...> wrote:

> just to be sure 100% - did you mean a cable only directly from midi
> out A and into midi IN ? because it is connected to the sound card
> via midi and everything has always worked - i was just curious
> because i didn't know what that meant - THANKS for the answer btw ...

Yes. When you hook the MIDI OUT of the XL to it's own MIDI IN, a loop is
created. In normal use, if MIDI Thru mode (where stuff that comes in to the
MIDI IN port gets sent back out through the OUT port) is on, the MIDI
information keeps getting duplicated until it just wigs everything out. This
is not a good thing.

The loopback test in diagnostics is used to test the MIDI ports
functionality. A MIDI loop should be avoided at all times. I believe someone
recently (malik?) had a loopback issue that futzed his patterns.
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Mibrilane