still having fatman (AFTERTOUCH) midi problems

[Will]

At 01:08 AM 5/30/97 GMT, you wrote:
>Very strange.  Is the aftertouch key or channel?  My WaveStation
>supports channel and I have *no* problems with my FatMan.  Firmware
>ver 1.9.  I use CakeWalk pro, no problems.  However, I am using an
>MQX32 dual port MIDI card.
>
My experience with my Fatman ( I built mine over a year ago) was that the
midi "latched" when recieving any aftertouch messages in quantity (I mean
alot of aftertouch data in a short period). Now since I use after touch a
lot and have optimized my controllers to send aftertouch without too too
much pressure, I latched mine pretty quickly. I have had experience with
older midi setups (P5, MemoryMoog) were I have had to filter out the Xtra
data to avoid lockups, so the answer came to me quickly. Velocity, pitch,
and a million notes a second don't tweak the FATMAN, but aftertouch, be it
channel or key, will lock it up. I have VER 1.9 as well and this is the
only glitch I can report, but to me, a very small one.

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