[KevinParticipant]

Hey,
I’m back with another batch of info. I reflashed to the same os and the midi leds appear to be behaving a little better (not on the entire time only when notes are being sent) To answer your question, I can’t stop them when I press stop/play again. I thought I stopped them last week by turning off the zaq and then back on but today it looks like the only way I can stop it is by turning off/on my device. I confirmed that this starts without me touching anything on the zaq as well. I’m starting to wonder if it’s a feedback or harmonic distortion type thing. My table is definitely a mess of cables. After the reflash, I went back to using the midi thru and the last two times it happened, I quickly unplugged the midi thru cable and plugged in the cable going into my computer and got no messages at all. I’m a bit busy this week but by friday I’ll try and get a couple things for you here.
1. I’ll plug the zaq direct into the computer and monitor the whole session and see if I can get the issue in my vst.
2. record some audio of my hardware so you have a better idea of what I’m trying to describe

Sorry for the long post by the way but there’s just a couple things I want to add. After I disabled the clock output and midi through also just in case, it changed from a string of 1/16th to something more like 1/16 on every beat (like an incredibly high pitched kick basically). That was on the volca keys. Next time it happened was on the volca bass (track 3-bass as opposed to track 1-keys) only on the bass, my bassline kind of warbled?(if that makes sense) and then started oscillating at a high pitch about 1 oscillation per bar. Also, last night my minibrute was doing some other odd things with a high pitch I can’t really describe. Before I got the zaq, I was using an octatrack to sequence all the same devices on the same messy table without any problems but like I said, I’ll try to get some audio and more midi info by the end of the week and hopefully I can shed some more light on this.
as always, thanks for your time and hard work
Kevin

[KevinParticipant]

I missed your last message when I sent my last one. They don’t stop once they are there. I’ll try another midi cable and this time try sending the midi into ableton to control a vst or something in there. Aslo I’ll send then pattern and global settings soon. I’ll also download a midi monitoring program although I might need some help figuring that out… I remember trying to use one 6-7 years ago and being completely confused but I’ve come a long way since then so who knows. Anyway more info to come soon and like always, thanks for all the support.
Kevin

[KevinParticipant]

I should add, I just turned off every note on every track with the Note mute function and still both midi led’s are solid

[KevinParticipant]

HI again,
So I had some time to fire up the sequencer today and just plugged the volca keys into midi out A directly and that’s it. I set all channels to out A and got this string of notes appear again (I think it might have happened when I was turning the knob to set the A B output) I should also note, I found the out b setting, turns out I was moving the knob too fast. With all tracks set to A and all muted, it was still sending the notes to the synth. Also with all tracks set to b and muted, same thing. Both times, both midi leds were on. Any ideas what my next step should be?

Thanks again,
Kevin

[KevinParticipant]

OK, so I got rid of the quadra thru and just plugged in my volca keys in output A and volca beats in output B. I tried to route channel 1 to output b but All I could find for option was A or Ab? So track 1 (beats) was routed to Ab and track 2 (keys) was A. I pressed play and whatever sequence I had for track 2 plays fine. The pattern I had saved, didn’t have the drum notes selected properly for Track one so I went into global menu and held down track 1 button and turned the knob to make all the drum notes change at the same time and that’s when I got the string of 1/16ths on the volca keys again. Both midi A & B lights were lit but I guess that’s expected with how I set it up. Beats is on midi channel 8 and keys is on 2 and both tracks were set up for that. Also I could mute all 4 tracks and still get just the string of 1/16ths sent to the keys. If I unmute track 2, I would get the sequence plus the string of notes. I’ll try just plugging in the keys alone tomorow and see if I can trigger it again somehow but hopefully some of the information I have here can help narrow down my issue somewhat.

Thanks for all your time, much apreaciated
Kevin

[KevinParticipant]

So I’m using ver. 1.042 and I have a Midi Solutions Quadra Through between the sequencer and my synths. All through midi output A on the ZAQ. By output lights, do you mean the A and B lights? If so, they are lit up but in all cases so far I’m sending midi through 3 channels so it’s hard to tell if the “ghost messages” are causing the lights. I’ll investigate a bit more on that. It appears to be random. I’ll investigate a bit more and see what it is exataly I’m doing when it starts. Perhaps I’m triggering it some way. As for the ratcheting and other settings, it could be but then I think it would be more consistant. I also tried muting all 4 channels today when it happened and it was still there until I turned off the synth and ZAQ and restarted then it went away. I could possibly record a few snipps of audio this week if that would help. I’ll get back to you here if I can figure out anything else that could help.
Thanks

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