Internal midi failure

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Internal midi failure

Postby Dirk95 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:46 pm

Hello,
I just got a 6400 ultra and did a diagnostic on it.
It says that the internal midi is bad.
What could be the problem?

Should I return it?
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:21 pm

Do you have anything powered up and connected to MIDI on the Ultra?
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Postby Dirk95 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:25 pm

Yes, I have a MPC1000 puting out midi. And I sampled 1 sound, to see if everything works. It playsback the sound sequenced by the MPC, filters, amp and the efx work.
But I haven't tried the internal sequencer yet and I think that the internal sequencer will give problems. I only have got it for a few hours, so I'm not understanding how everything works yet.
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:38 pm

Do you have MIDI out from the Ultra going to the MPC?
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Postby Dirk95 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:41 pm

No.
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:53 pm

Try it and run the diagnostic.
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Postby Dirk95 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:58 pm

Still bad. :cry:
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:04 pm

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the hell the diagnostic is referring to when it says "internal MIDI".
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:10 pm

The diagnostic test is a hardware test, so assuming you have all three MIDI ports connected when running the test, and you've confirmed all three ports can transmit or send MIDI data, I really don't think it's an issue.
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Postby Dirk95 » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:23 pm

I have a good reason to think something is broken: When I got the sampler today, the internal harddrive was bouncing loose inside the sampler. The previous owner had forgotten to connect it to the side with srews. I don't see any damage to the printboard, so It could be ok. But I nearly got a heart failure when I heard the package making scraping sounds. Then I opend the thing up and saw the loose harddisk only connected with the cable. At that moment I thought the whole thing was broken, but only the internal midi gives a bad diagnostic.
Anyway thanks for the help so far, I'm going to sleep. Speak you tomorrow.
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Postby art » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:12 pm

Dirk95 wrote:I have a good reason to think something is broken: When I got the sampler today, the internal harddrive was bouncing loose inside the sampler.


This would be reason enough for me to return it. :shock:
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Postby Dirk95 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:51 am

art wrote:
Dirk95 wrote:I have a good reason to think something is broken: When I got the sampler today, the internal harddrive was bouncing loose inside the sampler.


This would be reason enough for me to return it. :shock:

That is what I'll be doing.
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