Posted by greg on June 30, 2001 at 19:31:11:
In Reply to: Re: QS serial connection problem posted by Greg Jones on June 30, 2001 at 16:07:36:
: : I'm having a strange problem with the serial connection from my PC to my QS8.
: : The QS8 is not responding to my PC. When I run the test i/o function for the Alesis serial driver, set at the slowest speed, it cannot detect the QS8. Upon rebooting my PC, the QS8 started acting like it was being flooded with a bunch of sustained notes. This flurry of notes went away whever I would disconnect the serial cable from the back of the QS8. If I would reconnect it the noise would start back again.
: : I checked the serial connection on the PC, disconnected & reconnected the cable. Upon reboot, not only could the serial connection not detect the QS8, but the Cubase dongle was also not detected.
: : Could this be some kind of PC problem?
: : I'm running a PIII 1 Ghz, 256 MB, 32 MB video card. My system is relatively new and my motherboard has the Intel 815e chipset if it matters......
: I forgot to mention something even stranger about my problem.
: Even though the serial drive says it won't recognize the QS, I can get Cubase to playback my synth's click track. I just can't get any other midi tracks to play back. I've checked midi filters and didn't see any problems......The midi light on the transport bar doesn't respond when I play my synth.......
Greg-
A few things that I think may possibly be the problem (I'm no expert, so don't take my word for it):
-It could be a bad cable, or a bad serial port. I don't know why, but the "noise" you described suggests to me that it might be the cable that is not transmitting the data correctly.
- If nothing else works and you think it is a computer problem, try Roland's serial MIDI driver. I use it under windows 2000 and it works pretty well, it just doesn't do sysex messages quite right.
-what is a click track? I've never heard that before.
-greg