Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Aaron,
Do you have any idea what could be going on here?

I have narrowed the problem down by disconnecting the Virus midi in 
from my midi patchbay altogether (midex 8).
I now have the XL-7 midi B connected to the Virus midi in and I am 
still seeing the problem.  I was convinced this was a Cubase problem.

Anyway, playing back a pettern on the XL-7 (just one track output to 
channel:01B and Dest:both going to Virus) the sound on the Virus will 
stop.  Preview sound on the Virus will not work (hold Edit and Sync), 
playing the pads on the XL-7 will make no sounds on the Virus.  
Previously I had to reset the Virus to fix the problem.  Changing 
presets would have no affect.  However, I just discovered that if I 
change from multi to single mode and back on the Virus then the 
problem is cleared and all is good .... until I start play again on 
the XL-7.  

I would greatly appreciate any help on this.

-Justin.



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> Good idea. 
> 
> rEalm
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> "Justin Grimley" <grimley@i...>
> 02/19/2004 01:04 PM
> Please respond to xl7
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>         To:     xl7@yahoogroups.com
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        [xl7] Re: Cubase SX / XL-7 midi woes
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> Thanks for trying anyway!
> This evening I'm going to try hooking up a midi merge box to the XL-
7 
> and split the output so that it goes to both Cubase and the Virus. 
> Same with the Midex to Virus connection.  That way I can bypass 
> Cubase and see if it is a XL-7->Virus issue or a XL7-Cubase->Virus 
> issue.
> -Justin.
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> > Actually for Sounddiver they both need to be set to sysex.  But 
it 
> looks 
> > like you have them set right for what I was thinking, no other 
> ideas what 
> > could be causing that problem.
> > 
> > rEalm
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > rAlm,
> > Where do I check that?
> > In the control menu I can select Midi Control Lo and Hi page.  I 
> have 
> > it set to LoPage -> Contr and HiPage -> SysEx.  I believe these 
are 
> > the settings I need for Emagic SoundDiver.
> > 
> > -grimley


 
 
     
 
   
 
 
I am having some serious problems using the XL-7 as my pattern
sequencer hooked up to Cubase and was hoping someone might have an
idea of what is going on (sorry for the long post).

First off I will recap my setup as outlined in a previous post:

In Cubase I have a template with 12 midi tracks which map to tracks 5-
16 from the XL-7. I am using the input transformer on the tracks in
Cubase so that they filter out channels not assigned for this track.
(I'm using a Steinberg Midex8 midi interface.)

For example:
In cubase:
Midi Track 1 -> Halion channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 5
Midi Track 2 -> Halion channel 2 <- From XL-7 channel 6
Midi Track 3 -> Halion channel 3 <- From XL-7 channel 7
Midi Track 4 -> Halion channel 4 <- From XL-7 channel 8
Midi Track 5 -> Virusb channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 9
Midi Track 6 -> Virusb channel 2 <- From XL-7 channel 10
Midi Track 7 -> Virusb channel 3 <- From XL-7 channel 11
Midi Track 8 -> Virusb channel 4 <- From XL-7 channel 12
Midi Track 9 -> MS2000r channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 13
Midi Track 10 -> EX5 channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 14
Midi Track 11 -> Juno 106 channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 15
Midi Track 12 -> Absynth2 channel 1 <- From XL-7 channel 16

Each track in the XL-7 template is storing a CC#11 controller as the
first event so that when I save the template the channel routings are
stored.
In the Cubase midi preferences dialog, I filter out CC##11. I also
filter program changes and SYSEX for both thru and record.

Every time I use this setup, 2 problems occur at intermittent times,
and with no obvious pattern of events:

[1] ... The Access Virus b will not make any sound. Even doing a
patch audition by pressing EDIT & SYNC or choosing any other patch,
will not result in sound. The virus has to be completely shut down
and restarted.

[2] ... The XL-7 will completely lock-up and has to be
restarted. "Local" is on in the XL-7 because I use the pads to
transmit midi to my other devices as well as internal patches. No
tracks in Cubase are being routed back to the XL-7 so there shouldn't
be a midi loopback problem. The only thing that I can see that the
XL-7 receives from Cubase is midi clock and song pointer info.

Anything else I should look at?
Thanks for listening,
grimley

 

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