Subject:my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Posted by: horastes

Date:2/8/2006 2:35:57 PM

Well, I finally managed to get my midi-electric keyboard hooked up to my PC and interfaced with ACID. For some reason, though, when I load up the Soft-Synth built into acid and try to play on the keyboard, e.g. play a C major scale, the computer only picks up a couple of notes, e.g the first, fourth and fifth of that scale and sustains them for about 12 seconds. Then it receives absolutely no input for about another 10 seconds before permitting me to play a few more notes, which subsequently stick. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:2/8/2006 3:12:06 PM

Check that Local is set to Off, not On. This will be in your keyboard menu somewhere.

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:2/9/2006 5:57:13 PM

Weird. I just had this happen today for the first time. I can't think of anything i changed, except I did leave my session up for a few hours and came back to find this problem.
Memory leak? OR maybe my drives were asleep?
Anyway, it seems to have gone away on its own.

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:2/15/2006 1:29:42 PM

This problem keeps coming back. I dial up a patch, play notes in the Piano Roll, or play them in using an Oxy-8, or whatever. Nothing comes out for several seconds, maybe longer, then the notes play, and some stick.

What causes this?

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:2/16/2006 1:43:36 PM

This is really a drag. Anyone got a clue as to how to fix it?

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:2/16/2006 3:31:31 PM

Has your keyboard both a MIDI in and a MIDI out? Try disconnecting the MIDI in, so you are just sending from the keyboard.

Try a different MIDI cable (this has happened to me many times before).

Post a bit more detail about your system - do you have other MIDI gera attached, what is the interface etc. Are you hooking the keyboard up via the MIDI ports on the soundcard, or is it a separate interface? Or is it just USB with no MIDID cables?

etc

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:2/17/2006 11:32:51 AM

Its happening when I just have one MIDI IN cable from the Oxy-8. there is no local synth on there, so no MIDI out is being used.

I am wired via MIDI from my RME. No other MIDI gear is connected. In fact I rarely use the external keyboard.
It happens when I am using the mouse to hit the keys in the piano roll editor. I think its internal to ACID or its editor, but I can't say for certain.

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:2/19/2006 1:39:41 PM

Have you tried with any other MIDI software?

Sounds like Acid is getting confused between MIDI data coming from the mouse and the keyboard simultaneously.

I am curious. Why would you be trying to play notes with the keyboard and the mouse at the same time?

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:2/21/2006 2:27:08 PM

Dude, I am not trying to play with the mouse and keyboard at the same time! (thats funny tho)

I load up a VSTi, then I want to dial up a patch. I either play in the part via the Oxy 8, OR I tap the graphic keyboard to hear the patch. Sometimes I am already done tracking a midi part, and i am editing the notes, developing a melody alternative. I may tap that piano roll keyboard with the mouse to hear if that note is going to be where I go next.
This problem can happen in either instance.
Nothing will playback, then all of a sudden, all the notes I tried to play come jamming at me, and then some notes get stuck.

I have not had this happen with other software. As it stands, only ACID exhibits this behavior.

Subject:RE: my piano is posessed by the glue-demons

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:2/22/2006 7:34:46 PM

Thanks mate, does sound like an Acid problem. Have you logged this with Support?

PS I am going to see if I can reproduce it. I don't use MIDI much within Acid, but I have a fair bit of MIDI gear I can test it with.