Hi Mark
Thank you for the reply
Yes, Both bitbox and micromonsta2 have issues.
Bitbox relies on the midi Clock from Hermod
and micromonsta is missing note-off events from Hermod.
Maybe I can specify my setup a little further:
Tesseract is connected via USB to the Host Port on Hermod.
It does not receive midi, But can act as a CV to CC interface.
so when tesseracts CCs, can be modulated by diverse sources in my rack.
It sends specific CC numbers on specific channels to Hermod to change Effect parameters,
for example Euclidian Fill amount, Swing% etc.
Hermod is also forwarding USB Midi from Host to midi out.
Hermods midi Out goes into a kenton midi Thru and from there to both the Bitbox and Micromonsta2.
(micromonsta receives notes and CC (for cutoff only) on Midichannels 1 & 2)
Some of tesseract’s CCs also control filters and volume of specific things on the Bitbox.
(For this, I use Midichannel 15 only.)
Then there’s a Midi Keyboard (novation Launchkey MKIII) going into Hermod’s midi in.
Playing on Channels 1 to 3 on the Keyboard allows me to either play
one of micromonstas two timbres directly, (Hermod Midi Tru) or play Hermod’s active Channel for recording things. (Midi channel 3)
It does not send clock.
Hermod is the Master Clock.
It sends midi Clock over its midi Output to Bitbox and Micromonsta (for the arpeggiator)
AND it sends Clock & Reset on CV/GATE 1 to Pamelas New Workout.
(but this later part works rock solid…)
That’s all things “Midi” in my live case.
USB device Port on Hermod is empty.
So the midi feedback loop thing doesn’t seem to be it;
I don’t see how Hermod should getting Midi sent back to itself.
And yeah, as soon as two CCs change at the same time
(on tesseract) the Issue appears directly and is pretty reproducable.
Wierdly it doesnt happen, when I use CCs from Launchkey.
so that may narrow it down to something that tesseract is doing.
One very weird thing I found out just today is:
Even if I turn Host to Midi tru OFF, my bitbox is still receiving CC’s from Tesseracts 16n faders
that sends USB midi to Hermod and shouldn’t be forwarded to the midi OUT and Bitbox. and so does micromonsta.
in this case too, the missing note-off events and clock issues are unchanged.
This is quite a mess to debug : (
I contacted mangu from Tesseract maybe he knows something.
BTW: What is a normal and useful update-rate for Midi CCs?
It looks like Tesseract sends the values of all its 16 faders once per millisecond.
Is this crazy much? Is that just spamming my poor little Hermod with Midi events?