Help with Midi In/Out

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Hello All - I have been using the Hapax for a few months now, however I am trying to get all my keyboard synths to run both midi in and out and I keep running into issues. I seem to get a variety of problems (midi notes ‘sticking’ or the midi death loop. Sometimes the Hapax seems to trigger random notes, sometimes like a metronome even when it is off). I have no problems at all running midi notes out, and using an external controller to control the hapax, but as soon as I start to send the midi back out from my keyboard synths I get problems. I have tried turning all the synths to local mode off as well, and I seem to still have problems. It is not just one synth either.

Does anyone have any insights?

MX-1 is master clock and sends to the Hapax. I am using MidiSolutions Thru and Merge Boxes, but even not using those I still get issues.

If I am using Track 1 I am also sending Midi out on channel 1 (Midi out A) and Receiving on Channel 1 (Midi in A). I have set each track to the corresponding midi channels.

Thank you all!

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You may be creating a death loop with MIDI Channel 1 in being push back out on MIDI Channel 1. I don’t know your setup so this is a challenge to help troubleshoot but you might try seperating In and Out to different channels on the hapax and instrument and see if that doesn’t help.

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not sure this is related to the feedback loop but is there a reason you made MX-1 the clock instead of Hapax (as the MIDI brain for everything) clocking the MX-1?

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Maybe I am confused, most of my synths seem to only let you select one midi channel, so I assume that channel is for both in and out? Or is that only for in?

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I tried the other way too and had similar issues, then I saw Mr. Tuna Music on Youtube had a similar setup and was using his MX-1 as master clock so thought I would try that.

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thanks (mostly curious because i tried running MX-1 off my Deluge’s clock, and as a USB submixer for my MPC One but got some latency that just wasn’t working. might try clocking everything from MX-1 and seeing if that changes anything)