midi being sent when no key depressed? + volume issue
Posted: 18:56, 5 May 2018
Greetings -
I just got a JP-8000 (yesterday), and it's a great-sounding synth, that is for sure.
Mine appears to have 3 issues, however.
1) lower volume from the main outs than from the headphone out.
2) 'blipping' sounds when a key is depressed on a patch or performance.
3) midi 'blips' being transmitted when no key is depressed.
Issues #2 and #3 are related, I think. I can see, in my DAW, fairly random midi signals (no sound) being transmitted from the JP-8000. They look like 'blips', for lack of a better word. Several blips each second, there are a lot of them. There should be no midi whatsoever, since I'm not playing anything. Then, if I play a note (pretty much any note), it 'blips' or 'quavers' in a very annoying way, in a way that is synchronized with the midi signal blips.
Any thoughts about that?
Then, the volume issue. I've googled around, and it seems many JP-8000 owners have extremely low volume output. My headphone volume is fine, but the main outs have low volume. I'd need to use the headphone out for recording.
Any thoughts?
Here is what I've done so far.
> I've reinstalled the OS 1.05
> I've reset the factory presets
> I've completed the Roland JP-8000 onboard diagnostics (no issues revealed)
> I've let the synth stay on for a while, hoping it might 'right' itself. Yesterday, I thought the blipping issue was getting much better, but today it's worse than yesterday.
Thanks for your comments -
Richard
I just got a JP-8000 (yesterday), and it's a great-sounding synth, that is for sure.
Mine appears to have 3 issues, however.
1) lower volume from the main outs than from the headphone out.
2) 'blipping' sounds when a key is depressed on a patch or performance.
3) midi 'blips' being transmitted when no key is depressed.
Issues #2 and #3 are related, I think. I can see, in my DAW, fairly random midi signals (no sound) being transmitted from the JP-8000. They look like 'blips', for lack of a better word. Several blips each second, there are a lot of them. There should be no midi whatsoever, since I'm not playing anything. Then, if I play a note (pretty much any note), it 'blips' or 'quavers' in a very annoying way, in a way that is synchronized with the midi signal blips.
Any thoughts about that?
Then, the volume issue. I've googled around, and it seems many JP-8000 owners have extremely low volume output. My headphone volume is fine, but the main outs have low volume. I'd need to use the headphone out for recording.
Any thoughts?
Here is what I've done so far.
> I've reinstalled the OS 1.05
> I've reset the factory presets
> I've completed the Roland JP-8000 onboard diagnostics (no issues revealed)
> I've let the synth stay on for a while, hoping it might 'right' itself. Yesterday, I thought the blipping issue was getting much better, but today it's worse than yesterday.
Thanks for your comments -
Richard