Shiftone Posted May 12, 2018 Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 Can anyone help me work out why my MIDI Keyboard isn't playing nicely with my sammichSID? I'm using an Alesis Photon X25 USB MIDI Keyboard - and I've had it work with my Sammich in the past just fine. It's been a looooong time since I last tinkered with the Sammich and now I can't get it working. I can get the Sammich into SIDPlayer mode using the Photon X25 interface just fine - so I know the MIDI interface is working and can talk to the Sammich. As soon as I drop out of SIDPlayer mode I get nothing. Playing the keys does not trigger the Sammich. I've checked that I'm sending on Ch1 and that my Sammich is defaulting to Ch1 - I can see the note on/off commands flowing in MIDI Monitor. Not really sure what to check next to try and troubleshoot...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiftone Posted May 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 The plot thickens... Installed MIOS Studio to make sure the MIDI interface could connect to the core and it works fine. I can also trigger notes using the MIOS Studio virtual keyboard... still no notes being triggered by the hardware keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiftone Posted May 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 ..and installed a software MIDI keyboard - set it to MIDI Out on the Photon X25 and it triggers the Sammich... It's crazy, I can watch the Soft keyboard send a C3 note message on MIDI Ch1 and the Sammich triggers. I press C3 on the physical keyboard and nothing - but I see the note on Ch1 in my monitor wtf. 22:58:46.101 From PhotonX25 Note On 1 C3 48 22:58:46.194 From PhotonX25 Note Off 1 C3 0 22:58:57.528 From VMPK Output Note On 1 C3 100 22:58:57.614 From VMPK Output Note Off 1 C3 100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Hm, it might be velocity related (keyboard sending velocity 48, the virtual keyboard sends 100): * which patch are you using on the SammichSID - can you try the init patch? * can you push a key "read hard" on the Photon? Which velocity do you get then? * can you remap the Photon velocity curve? Many greets and have a great sunday! Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiftone Posted May 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Hawkeye said: Hm, it might be velocity related (keyboard sending velocity 48, the virtual keyboard sends 100): * which patch are you using on the sammichSID - can you try the init patch? * can you push a key "read hard" on the Photon? Which velocity do you get then? * can you remap the Photon velocity curve? Many greets and have a great sunday! Peter Doesn't matter what velocity I get out of the hardware keyboard, I've had over 100 out of it in the MIDI monitor by playing the keys harder. Testing on the init patch. More info. I fired up Ableton Live and mapped MIDI channel 1 as an external instrument. The hardware keyboard is now triggering the Sammich. In the MIDI monitor window the note message is the same as when Ableton isn't running... Still can't understand why the hardware keyboard won't just trigger the synth on its own. Edited May 13, 2018 by Shiftone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) We have had problems reported here on the forum when using 3,3V based MIDI gear trying to send data to certain 5V operating MIDI receivers. Maybe that is a path for further inquiry? Edited May 13, 2018 by ilmenator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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