MOTM

Well, So far I've Never been able to get four separately controlled voices via the 1/1/1/1 Voice Group type and controlling each voice with a separate MIDI channel.  Voices 1 & 2 work fine and dandy, the problems are with Voices 3 & 4.  

a) The Pitch CV from Voice3 and Voice4 have a strange sort of interaction.
As an example, I have 2 midi tracks coming from a sequencer (I use ProTools and/or Live).  Midi track 3 controlling Voice3 on the 650 and Midi track 4 controlling Voice4 on the 650.  In my case I just have the same scale playing from the bottom end up the scale on both midi channels. 

 a1) if you mute the midi output of channel 3, both voices (even V3 which should ONLY be tracking with midi channel 3) track up to A3 and then don't play any higher notes and won't go any higher despite what the sequence is playing.

 a2) if you mute the midi output of channel 4, Both voices (even V4 which should ONLY be tracking with midi channel 4) only track up to B0 before locking up.

 a3) BUT...if you have BOTH midi channels active(Midi3 to V3 and Midi4 to V4) Both Voices will track normally up into the inaudible range!

That's the one issue I have that keeps me from loving it unconditionally, but probably won't be able to live with it unless it can be fixed.  

Thanks, 
Tim C.





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From: Paul Schreiber <synth1@...>
To: MOTM List <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:27:17 PM
Subject: [motm] MOTM-650 bug reporting time

  
I have collected MOTM-650 bug reports over the years and sent them in as a 
whole to Jeffrey so he can address them. In many cases, he is unable to 
reproduce the error. The exception is CC message assignments to the AUX 
outputs, that is currently fixed and he is testing that code right now.

Things that people have reported in the past include:

a) running a high rate clock into EXT CLK for the arpeggiators (like into 
the audio range) will cause a lock-up

b) scrolling the menus while receiving MIDI data will lock up

c) external MIDI clock seems to run the arpeggiators at 1/2 speed

The current firmware release is V1.3 that shows up when you power up the 
device. If you re NOT on V1.3 (there should be nothing else, like RC1 or 
V127) email me. There will be a new beta firmware version available in ~ 2 
weeks. If you want to be a beta tester email me. Right now, the firmware 
updater is XP only, Jeffrey thinks he has a Mac solution that will be ready 
in time.

So, I'm asking people with '650s to really pound on them this weekend/next 
week, watch for any strange lockups and *write down* what happened and then 
repeat it several times so he can also see it.

Fixing the CC messages is a big plus, but I want to get everything quashed 
in this release.

Paul S.