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By 1waymuzik Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:55 am
I recently was told by a Roland support tech that the issue I was having with my keyboard was "Normal" and that it was supposed to do what it was doing. I told the cat that it just started to do this and he chopped it up and said "I guess you were just lucky all this time!"
Ok cool! Anyway I've been learning to cope with the new changes but I have noticed that my keyboard will onlly play patches that are tempo based correctly while the MPC is play. In other words I have to push play on the MPC and only then will certain patches on the fantom play back correctly. I figured it was because the fantom is using the MPC's midi clock to determine the patches tempo but before its would play them back correctly regardless if the MPC was playing or not. When the Fantom is put in midi slave mode the midi light indicator will now stay solid or turn off. Before it would blink while it was synced up and not playing. (For those of you who are familiar with the fantom) And once again my other keyboard which is a roland works fine. "Im switchin to a Motif or something Lol!"
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By lildave Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:17 am
I've noticed this on my gear when I've had my 2488mkii set to external an tried to use it as a slave in my MIDI setup with my Fusion and my MPC. Why your Fantom will just start this all of the sudden is unclear to me too but just check all of your MIDI settings on both units. Even the cables to be sure that they're plugged in right. I've had gear freeze up on me because of this in the past. Is it possible to set the tempo on your Fantom even if it's not in SONG mode? This may be your only way out if you can't figure out what's really going on with it. I have a few more ideas but not too much different from what I already mentioned. I hope this helps.