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Could that be a timing issue? If you are running the sample player through the Jack audio server (most probably you already know this, but just in case) have you edited the 'audio group'? (actually it is the /etc/security/limits.conf file that requires some change of settings from the standard linux configuration).

Sorry I was perhaps not clear. Why don't you use a mountable female connector to the body of the BC so you can use your own cables.

Hi, is this for the Yamaha BC1? That model has a mini TRS plug, so you could just a TRS female connector where the cable comes out of the unit and use standard mini TRS cables.

Thanks for suggestion! However if that was the case at least the first Note On message should sound and stop about 350ms later? But that does not seem to happen. There seems to be no way of turning off Active Sensing in the MODX or at least I cannot find how to do it.

For those interested, a brief update. I tried the drumstick program, which is somewhat similar to amidi and sadly it is a similar story. Both the drumstick-metronome and the drumstick-guiplayer work fine with the Nord, but they do not work with the MODX. drumstick-vpiano does not work either with the MODX. I noted that the port is handled by alsa, so it might be the same problem as before (not being able to deal with the MODX ports). However, dumping MIDI incoming messages: drumstick-dumpmid -p MODX:0 works fine.🤔

Thanks pjd for the time you took looking at this.

Hi again, pjd. The plot thickens (just a bit)... perhaps you saw the message in the other forum stating that the MX49 shows 5 ports and still works fine. Could that be a MODX implementation issue and not just because the number of ports?

Thank you pjd for the follow up! Kind of relieved that it is not my MODX. I can also confirm your workaround, and will try to find where to report this behaviour to the amidi maintainers, maybe it can be fixed.

Thank you @pjd, I was aware of the description of the different ports in the manual and I tried all three visible ports, just in case. The piece of code above is a simplified version of my script (which is a loop, kind of a sample robot, which sends notes On and Off sequentially over a range of notes). I did try many other higher note values and it is still the same problem. I am coming to the conclusion that either amidi might be failing to address the MODX port, or I am calling the port incorrectly. (I note that the manual says that via USB one can use up to 8 ports with 16 channels, but only 3 are visible to amidi). I might explore using a USB-to-5pin MIDI cable and see whether that works, although I ignore which of those cable/interfaces work in linux (I read that many cheap ones do not work properly). I would be grateful for any other suggestion. Thanks again.

Hi, I wonder if anybody has been able to successfully send MIDI messages over USB using the amidi command in linux. I also asked this in the Yamahamusicians forum, but I am not sure there would be too many linux users there. I wrote a script that works perfectly fine on a Nord Stage 2, but I cannot make it work on the MODX (where the only difference should be the hardware port where the messages are sent to). The amidi -l command lists the MODX interface ports as expected: Dir Device Name IO hw:3,0,0 MODX MIDI 1 IO hw:3,0,1 MODX MIDI 2 IO hw:3,0,2 MODX MIDI 3 I am assuming that the ports should be accessible to the amidi command, but sending a Note ON message on Channel 1 (or any other) does not seem to work... The relevant lines are: #!/bin/bash i=16 vel=127 note=$(printf "%x\n" "$i") velo=$(printf "%x\n" "$vel") midi="90 $note $velo" amidi -p hw:3,0,0 --send-hex=$midi The MODX is set to USB MIDI, Single Mode, Channel 1. The only thing I can think of is that in the Nord, the only hw port detected as a single number while in the MODX there are three (I did try hw:3,0,1 and hw:3,0,2, same result). I appreciate that the MODX and Montage have an "unusual" MIDI implementation, and I wonder if anybody has any additional suggestions. Thank you.

@cphollis: you might be remembering some other pedal. The original Nord triple pedal (not the one recently released with the Stage 4!) has the same contacts as the keys (silicone contacts with carbon surfaces): https://www.norduserforum.com/general-nord-forum-f29/inside-triple-pedal-modification-t1883.html This diagram from the Nord user forum should be useful to troubleshoot what is going on: https://www.norduserforum.com/nord-stage-forum-f3/get-a-triple-pedal-from-3-ordinary-pedals-t1926-30.html#p129598

Does the simple pedal work in another keyboard? Do you have a multimeter/tester available? If not it will be tricky to find out what is going on.

It reminds me of the Roland SH-2 and SH-09 🤔

I can't believe that these two instruments were what Matt Johnson was referring to in a recent video (something about filming something for Yamaha in Germany.?)

Not sure what is the story here linking to commercial sites, but if you search for CK88 you will find a link to gak.co.uk with a photo and specs.

I do not think I am wrong. It was Peter Banks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggxNnZQMQ4

What do the "details" say about that site?

While it might make not a big deal of difference (depending on the sample), it is not the same thing using the L+R than only one output. Think of an Auto-pan stereo effect (bouncing L and R) if added as mono, you hear no effect, if you use only one input you would hear a Tremolo effect. You might get different types of phase cancellation by adding the inputs.

If the pedal is just a passive pot (many volume pedals are just that), I doubt that one can hear a difference. The linearity (actually logarithmic) change through the pedal travel is defined by the pot type (linear, log, anti-log).

Strictly speaking now there are none of the original members of Yes in that group. When should the band stop using the original name? Is that a moral or a legal issue? I might be wrong but wasn't there also time when there were two touring Yes-related bands (can't remember if they both used the name). Similar to Focus where only one original member remains. My point was that it is a bit relative, like the ship of Theseus problem. The Stones example, sure without Jagger it would not be the same, but why this is not an issue for Genesis without PG?

Not ridiculous at all. How many original members are there in the London Symphonic Orchestra? Perhaps similar to the "Ship of Theseus" problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus By the way, I liked it!

Has anybody tried a Spider Baby stand with a second tier (sitting playing position)? I am not clear how much overlap there would be with the lower shelf as the lower keyboard has panel buttons that need to be accessible. I also see that for the bigger Spider Pro there seem to be angled tiers. Would they also work for the Baby? Thanks for any pointer (or photo!).

Flesh eating bacteria are smaller than that! 😂

I was going to suggest to cut some slices of cork and glue them.

Can somebody clarify if the signal level expected at the XLR input is the same as in an unbalanced jack input? I had the idea that they are different and that's why my comment that just an adaptor might not be way to go.