my slave suddenly died....

[bosone]

Hi!

i have 2 sid connected master-slave with step a control surface.

suddenly, the slave doesnt emit any sound.... :-(

i see that the audio ouput is not zero and there are transients at power on/off, but midi doesn't work and the slave doesn play (while the master do).

the channels are OK, and the LINK from master to slave is activated (if i press the link button i see the event from the midi out, so this software part should be OK).

since i upgraded the master (only the master) to 1.7a several weeks ago, are there some software trick that i missed (apart the link) in main.asm??

is there a fast way to debug a slave?? if i connect midi in/out to the slave, should i see midi events (ex: ping) even if the device number is 1?

any other ideas??? i checked the connections and, at a first glance, they are ok. i even tried to switch audio outs and even the two sids, but the chip are working, and all the voltages seems to be OK.

thanks!

[TK.]

Hi Matteo,

the fastest way to debug this would be to determine, if the configuration of the slave PIC is still ok, is just to plug it into the socket of the master module.

I know that you made some experiments with JSynthLib, propably you've unintentionally changed the device ID or something like that (I removed this feature in the latest snapshot to prevent this).

By controlling the slave PIC from a master core, you have the savest conditions: you know, that the appr. SID module is working, and you know that the MIDI connection is working. And if the slave doesn't respond, you could just upload the application again just to have a "known" starting point.

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[bosone]

well, problem solved after some time, at least!!!

both sid and core slave were working (as i connected the midi cables and the optocoupler!)

but for some reason (i was doing some tests...:) i changed the slave ID!  :P

so i reupload everyhthig.... last mios version, sid 1.7a and the correct device ID!

[TK.]

Great! So, now where you've tried again how to upload an application, it's time to do the next step: update your MIDIbox to MIOS V1.9 and MBSID V1.7303 :)

Best Regards, Thorsten.