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Cheap USB MIDI adaptors - beware!

ViscountMIDI

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I'd like to briefly relate my experiences with trying to get GrandOrgue to work with a Viscount MIDI-capable electronic organ, in the hope of helping other people avoid the expensive and time-consuming mistake I made. My issue was purely a MIDI one, GrandOrgue has always behaved brilliantly.

In a nutshell - if you buy a cheap USB to MIDI adaptor, and you get odd MIDI behaviour such as only being able to use the console keyboard that sends on MIDI channel 1, suspect the adaptor.

Especially if has a picture of a treble clef on it and costs less than 20 currencies. Even if the adaptor works fine with other devices which use multiple MIDI channels.

As you can guess, I made the mistake of suspecting the organ, when all that was needed was a USB to MIDI adaptor from a reputable brand which is fully compliant with the MIDI spec. These are not as cheap, but rather cheaper than the costs of sending your electronic organ logic board back to the manufacturer for a repair it doesn't need. :)
 

JayR

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I had issues with an in-stock replacement for a MIDI controller I had ordered. The Turtle Beach I had originally tried to order was out of stock, and the one they sent me seemed rather cheap. Where I really ran into issues is when I attempted to reprogram some of the MIDI channel assignments on the HWCE2x controller. It would assign the note on events correctly, but would randomly affect the note off for a key on an entirely different channel! Jordan recommended a M-Audio MIDI Sport 1x1, and I have not had issues since.
 
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wljmrbill

Member
I use a MOTU 5x5 80 channel Interface with usb connection to computer which works well for me. Check out http://www.Sweetwater.com has many amny electronic and music related products and always have had good luck from their merchandise.
 

ViscountMIDI

New member
... it would assign the note on events correctly, but would randomly affect the note off for a key on an entirely different channel! Jordan recommended a M-Audio MIDI Sport 1x1, and I have not had issues since.

Those are exactly the symptoms I had - note off messages appearing to be on the wrong channel. I changed to a Roland UM-ONE and all was well.
 

Albert

New member
I have used a Midi Sport 1x1 with my Johannus since I bought it in late 2000. I don't use it for sound; I use it as the connector from an old IBM Win 98 computer running Johannus voicing software. It has worked as expected for all those years.
 

Mick Berg

New member
I use an old Edirol UA-20 and it works very well but installing the driver is an absolute pain.
Mick
 
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