miditzer 216 cipher

[telecoustic83]

I've been playing around with the miditzer 216 a bit running my yamaha electone me-10 through the computer and i've been enjoying it besides the constant ciphers. what would be causing the ciphers? I had my casio keyboard run through my mothers computer although the polyphony was a bit inadequete, it never ciphered. i've been using the same midi to usb cable and my old computer ciphered and now i've upgraded to a new computer with 3 gig of ram and been using the electone for my input device. still getting ciphers. dont want to invest in a midi module to add midi to my allen if i'm going to keep getting ciphers. any ideas? suggestions?

[Philip the organist]

All I know is to press the escape key when a cipher happens, or click the MidiTzer nameplate. It will cut off all notes and you can just keep going.

[telecoustic83]

been doing that for a bit, but this is happening pretty much every minute or 2. Wasnt sure if there were adjustments I had to make to the program settings or what not.

[andyg]

Could be soundcard settings. I assume the new computer has a good soundcard? If not, all the RAM in the world won't help. Having said that, the problems most often experienced are to do with stuttering playback rather than ciphers.

Have you asked over at the Miditzer Forum? I can recall there have been many discussions regard this sort of problem.

Andy

[telecoustic83]

not sure, i'm just running it through a laptop currently, I never thought of that one, i'm working on a dedicated computer as soon as i get more money together though.

[j reimer]

I have read in some forums that Yamaha keyboards used with certain MIDI to USB cables cause such problems. In the recent past I have midified my analogue organ, and although my very cheap MIDI to USB cable worked 100% with my Casio keyboard, there were troubles with the new MIDI interface. Then I bought a dearer cable (it looked much the same as the first one), and I had no further troubles.

John Reimer