still having fatman midi problems

[Mark Pulver]

John Speth (09:30 AM 5/29/97 -0700) wrote:

>At 10:48 AM 5/29/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>ok, when i hook the fatman to my poly 800(very little midi info) it works 
>>great. no stuck notes. the second i plug it into my controler( after 
>>touch, velocity, bla bla bla) it sticks notes. It also sticks notes 
>>during use with cakewalk, which is odd cause i'm only putting out note 
>>info. any ideas? how much is a midi data filter? good brands? the 
>>cheapest solution?
>>thanks.
>
>You are using a PAIA Fatman that uses a MIDI data stream huh?  I had a
>similar problem using a PAIA MIDI-CV controller maybe 8 years ago and it
>was a real problem for me too.  I was also using Cakewalk and it made my
>MIDI-CV hang up when I play back.

*WAIT*!

Before anyone takes this and starts rumors about PAiA, the FatMan, or
anything else, please understand a couple of things.

- The *OLD* PAiA MIDI->CV converter had a good number of bugs, basically
due to a design flaw that couldn't be fixed in software. Yes, it would lock
up on a good amount of MIDI data outside of simple NOTE_ON and NOTE_OFF.

- PAiA has admitted to the troubles of the *OLD* PAiA MIDI->CV converter
and has worked hard to make good for people that bought them.

- The *OLD* PAiA MIDI->CV converter has been off of the market for a number
of years, like more than 7.

- The *NEW* PAiA MIDI->CV converter is MUCH better.

- The MIDI->CV converter in the FatMan has NOTHING to do with the *OLD*
PAiA MIDI->CV converter, and is *NOT* broke like the old one was. In fact,
it works pretty damn well.

Please people, DO NOT make wide sweeping statements along these lines. If
you having problems with a piece of gear from Joe's synth company it is
*NOT* fair to draw parallels to ANYTHING that you saw with a Joe's synth
from many years ago. This would be much like complaining that your new
JX-8000 doesn't work like your Jupiter 8 does.



Now... About the MIDI problem at hand...

	- John, Do you have the latest rev of the FatMan firmware?

	- Have you called/written to PAiA? paia at paia.com

	- I do think that there was a short mod to do to the interface; PAiA
	  can confirm this.

	- I can tell you that my FatMan processes a BUNCH of data and it 
   	  doesn't hang up like this. There is hope, we just have to find 
	  out what's happening.

Mark

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