Stuck notes, notes from Hapax not going through, general glitchiness, lack of tempo sync. It’s like they won’t properly “shake hands.”
As I said, I sent a long detailed note to support. I will reproduce it below but I’m not particularly looking for tech support on the forum.
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What I’ve tried to do: set up the Hapax to send MIDI (notes, CCs) to the Mono and control the Mono’s transport and tempo. It would be ideal if I could sequence events on both, keeping in mind that the Mono is a mono synth.
Sorry this is so long but I am trying to detail the problem and clearly lay out my troubleshooting steps.
What I know:
The Hapax works perfectly fine to connect and send MIDI to other instruments like the Dreadbox Typhon, the UDO Super 6, and an iPad.
The Mono is perfectly happy to receive MIDI input from my iPad, or from my Linnstrument’s DIN connection.
So there’s something about how they connect. At first I thought maybe it was because the Mono was a mono synth and the Hapax only has poly channels, but the Typhon doesn’t have this issue.
What happens when I connect the Hapax to the Mono:
Glitchiness! And not in a cool way (ok, that’s debatable). Not all notes play if I’m playing a sequence on the Hapax, or playing notes in manually. Often I’ll get stuck notes. Adjusting tempo on the Hapax works on any events on the Hapax but does nothing to the Mono even though transport responds to start/stop commands and I’ve set the Hapax to send MIDI start/stop and clock to the Mono.
For troubleshooting purposes, I have connected the Hapax and Mono to one another, and the Mono audio out to my mixer. But I’ve disconnected everything else. I am using the DIN MIDI cable I used to connect to my Linnstrument to the Mono, and my Hapax to my Super 6, so I know it works. Ditto for the USB cable (which was tested with the Typhon).
On the Mono, I am following the directions on page 23 of the current manual: hit [func] + MIDI, then I’ve selected channel 1 [seq 1] and then either [B] or [C] (the sequencer page buttons), for DIN or USB, depending on what’s connected. Then I hit [func] again.
On the Hapax, I set the channel to the DIN channel I’ve selected on the Mono, or I select the USB host channel and set the Mono to receive USB MIDI. I have also set MIDI sync to sending run and tempo messages.
This is a real head scratcher and it’s consistently reproducible.
