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Date: 18-Aug-09 @ 03:08 AM -
mpc/jp8k/micro q midi woes
hello party people. my beloved mpc2kxl (hard to believe it's been a decade already) decided to go all kerplunk on me last year, so after a solid 12 months of using renoise - which is admittedly the best software sequencer/production solution i've ever used - i finally gave up and got my mpc fixed. joy of joys!
after selling a lot of gear i'm down to some real basics - the mpc, the jp, the microq and my modded 505. i'm having some real problems getting everyone to play together, and my otherwise awesome ikea hack (RAST tabletop + 6U rack ears = 6U rack for about 25 bucks) makes it a pain in the ass to get behind there and swap out cables.
my initial setup was:
JP midi out to MPC midi in (a) --> mpc midi out (a) to waldorf in --> waldorf thru to midi in on jp.
after changing all my local settings everything seemed real happy with initial tests.
and then the goofiness started.
jp would hang if i changed anything on the synth itself, in other words i could select patches via the mpc but touching a knob would cause a stuck note. changing the midi channel on the mpc would fix that, and everything would be fine until i touched another knob. fiddling with the jp and disabling exclusive messages from the jp seemed to fix that problem, except that using the micro q caused a serious note lag (a few seconds) making playing it nearly impossible.*
should i give up, pull the thru connection and just set it up so that the 2nd out on the mpc sends to the waldorf directly and the jp has the first midi ins and outs on the mpc to itself and likewise with the waldorf? (i only use the 505 on special occasions) am i missing a glaringly obvious solution? so many months without my mpc or running hardware synths seems to have made me stupid. any help is greatly appreciated.
*on top of this my micro q knobs are being total knobs and not tracking properly. i'm sweeping them as per the recommendations (60 rotations in either direction) but it's only slowly coming back to responsiveness. i still like it, though.