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Re: Mobius Mystery part 2



It occorrer to me and I solved it using a midi filter module in Bidule. 
Don't know if Live has something like that but I strongly raccomend to get 
under control your midi data streams.

-f



Il giorno 13/apr/2012, alle ore 19:32, Kevin Cheli-Colando 
<billowhead@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Well I have noticed that I get the occasional portamento cc sent after
> the notes but I wasn't sure if that was the Rotary controller or the
> FCB.
> 
> I can't confirm things since I'm not in front of the computer I'm
> using for this, but I believe I tried changing to PC messages instead
> and I got no response at all from Mobius in Live.
> 
> I am trying to be diligent in my testing before I send these messages
> at least :-)
> 
> Thanks for the ongoing help, I'm convinced this is going to open a
> whole new vista of musical possibilities once I get this up and
> running.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A quick comment related Jeff's mentioning of the FCB sending out MIDI
>> PC messages it is not programmed to send out. I have owned three FCB's
>> and each of them sent out random bursts of MIDI CC# data now and then
>> in addition to the MIDI Notes it was programmed to send out. Not
>> thinking that this phenomenon can cause the issue Kevin suffers
>> though, just wanted to complete  the picture of The FCB's
>> Peculiarities.
>> 
>> Greetings from Sweden
>> 
>> Per Boysen
>> www.perboysen.com
>> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jeff Larson 
>> <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:
>>> I ran a few tests on Windows and Mac, and I'm able to get Note On and 
>>> Note Off through Live to Mobius.
>>> The tests were done with a little Korg nanoKey but that shouldn't make 
>>> a difference, the important thing is that you need to make sure that 
>>> the FCB 1010 is sending both Note On and Note Off and nothing else.  
>>> The FCB can sometimes send extra MIDI program changes along with the 
>>> note events if you don't disable that when you program the note.  To 
>>> verify this use MIDI Monitor on Mac or MIDI-OX on Windows and make 
>>> sure that you're only getting Note on/off from the device.
>>> 
>>> Next I brought up Live, 1 audio track, 1, midi track, went to "MIDI 
>>> Sync" tab in Live's preferences and made sure that for the nanoKey the 
>>> "On" button under the Track column was lit, the Sync and Remote 
>>> buttons should be Off.
>>> 
>>> Then I dropped Mobius 2 into the audio track.  In the Mobius MIDI 
>>> Devices window make sure there is nothing selected in the Plugin Input 
>>> Devices panel.  In the MIDI track, the "MIDI From" button reads "All 
>>> Ins" and
>>> "All Channels" under "Monitor" click the "In" button  so it is lit, 
>>> under "MIDI To" select "1-Audio".
>>> 
>>> Go back to the Mobius window and open the MIDI Control dialog.  I 
>>> added a binding for the Record function and used MIDI capture to 
>>> detect the first key on the nanoKey.  Close the MIDI Control dialog, 
>>> and press the key.  Recording starts.  Press key again, recording 
>>> stops.
>>> 
>>> On Windows I was using Live 8.1.1 on OS X I was using an older trial 
>>> version of 7.0.12.
>>> 
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Kevin Cheli-Colando [billowhead@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:57 PM
>>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>>> Subject: Re: Mobius Mystery part 2
>>> 
>>> Well, this is getting embarrassing but I will press on to ask again 
>>> anyway.
>>> 
>>> I can get the midi to work running Mobius as a stand alone.  Record
>>> starts recording and plays as expected when stopped.
>>> 
>>> But when I go into Live, the recording always does that 1 second and
>>> reset thing.  I thought I tried all the things suggested (and I do
>>> have it set up as described below) but I can't figure out what is
>>> going on.  Anyone want to take pity on a simpleton and walk me through
>>> the steps of configuring Live and Mobius to play nicely together.  I
>>> feel like I'm missing something obvious but don't know how to track it
>>> down.  I guess its fair to say I know enough to cause trouble but
>>> don't really quite understand exactly what I'm doing.
>>> 
>>> I'd be happy to read a manual but I can't even seem to find the
>>> solution to the problem I'm facing in the manual or forums (though
>>> Jeff's manual does mention the long press reset problem but seems to
>>> assume I would then know how to solve that issue).
>>> 
>>> Round three anyone?
>>> 
>>> Kevin
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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