Post #159,847
6/14/04 8:29:51 AM
6/14/04 9:01:12 AM
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MIDI keyboard not transmitting
Apologies in advance for the somewhat vague nature of this question:
Anyone ever experienced the situation where a MIDI-capable keyboard will listen, but doesn't want to talk?
My dear old [link|http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/_inc/picview.cfm?synthid=44|JV-30] will happily play any MIDI music you throw at it, but it steadfastly refuses to send any data at all back to the PC.
I've verified, using another keyboard, that the PC can happily receive MIDI events. So it's not the PC interface, nor the cables. I've tried all channels, also to no avail.
I just would've thought that if one MIDI ability in the keyboard broke, all of it would. So, is it weird for such a thing to happen?
(So my next quetion will probably be - which keyboard should I buy next :) )
Edit: Fix some typos. I haven't had much to drink, honestly officer...
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Edited by Meerkat
June 14, 2004, 09:01:12 AM EDT
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Post #159,849
6/14/04 8:53:43 AM
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Re: MIDI keybaord not transmitting
Going to a Mac?
My Yamaha piano has a different switch setting for PC vs. Mac. I assume this means a different serial data rate (38k PC, 32k Mac).
-drl
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Post #159,850
6/14/04 9:14:50 AM
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No switches I can see ... seems to just be plain-old broken.
Currently connected to a PC - I don't (yet) have a MIDI interface for the Mac. Next thing I'll try is connect my two keyboards together and see if the broken one can transmit to the working one.
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Post #159,851
6/14/04 9:36:45 AM
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Re: No switches I can see ... seems to just be plain-old
My Yamaha connects to my serial port and uses a serial MIDI driver - this works in both Linux and Windows.
-drl
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Post #159,875
6/14/04 12:36:24 PM
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I have seen one where you have to set something to tell it
you want it to transmit. That was on a tres old Clavinova that a friend was trying to hook up to his PC. He did get it going eventually, and I think he had to do some futzing around with the switches on the board to put it in the right mode to do so.
Do you have the manual? His problem was solved when he finally laid his hands on one for his keyboard....
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Post #159,886
6/14/04 1:51:30 PM
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manual
[link|http://www.incx.org/roland/jv30.zip|jv30](zipped PDF) from [link|http://www.incx.org/docs/RolandManuals.htm|ROLAND MANUALS PAGE]
Page 34 is the start of MIDI Sections, mentions "...can be used as a master keyboard that controls a number of other units..."
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Post #159,914
6/14/04 6:16:37 PM
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Cheers!
I (obviously) didn't look very hard for a manual. I think I've done what it said, but I'll give it a go again this evening and see what happens. Thanks!
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Post #162,204
6/30/04 2:00:30 AM
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Might be a broken socket.
My dad fixes keyboards from a local high school with broken headphone sockets fairly regularly. The MIDI socket could easily have suffered the same fate. A simple soldering task would fix that.
There's an opto-isolation chip in the MIDI circuit that could have gone bung. Problem is that ISTR such a thing lives in the receiving circuit, not the sending one. If that's the problem, it, too, should be easy to fix by one capable of weilding a soldering iron.
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Post #162,205
6/30/04 2:15:46 AM
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I'm debating whether to open it up and have a look
Wondering whether it's worth the time and effort. There are at least a dozen screws on the underside. There's also the risk that I may get it all Humpty Dumpty, thus ruining any potential eBay income from it.
Welcome Back, BTW.
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