Still struggling with MIDI

[Mark Ziebarth]

Hi,
thanks for your answers. I have a support ticket at Avid now to solve the problem but didn’t get it working so far.
To make it clear: MIDI input works in some sessions but not in all. Some sessions don’t get any MIDI, no notes on a MIDI or Instrument track and no sound from instruments.
Even if I import a track via Session Data Import from a session where MIDI works.
It confuses me that MIDI seems to be Session dependent.
Test mode in Audio-MIDI Setup works as well.

Best regards

Mark

[Mark Ziebarth]

Hi,
just to give a quick update: Even Avid support hasn’t found out what the real problem is: They say I have obsolete gear in my MIDI chain (Emagic Unitor 8). That’s true but all new sessions are working, it’s some older ones created on different systems that have problems.
I conclude there are session dependent settings for MIDI. I always thought the MIDI setup is a global preference.

[ChuckS]

In the Setup menu some of the MIDI Setup items are greyed out until you have a session loaded, so those may be session dependent. One of them is MIDI Input Devices - have you looked there?

[Mark Ziebarth]

No I didn’t. But thanks for the info I will take a look at it later today.

Best

Mark

[midnightrambler]

Another (stupid?) suggestion:

Are you viewing "Instruments" in the mix or edit window? And are they definitely on and not set to "none"?

http://duc.avid.com/attachment.php?a...1&d=1552643851


I've had plenty of instances where the session has saved fine, and then for literally no reason the instrument is set to "none" when it re-loads. (This issue still isn't fixed...)

[musicman691]

Mark:
Do you have the current driver installed for the Unitor? See here for it: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL991?v...S&locale=de_DE

[PhilSchroeder]

I use MIDI a lot in Pro Tools and have this (or a similar) problem on occasion. For me, it's always the keyboard controller that needs to be rebooted. I've had this experience with multiple controllers over the years – they seem to start kicking out faulty sys ex or something. Worth a try.