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Prophet-5/Prophet-10 / Re: Prophet 5 ERROR 8
« Last post by Analog Prophet on April 28, 2024, 05:12:55 AM »Does it respond to MIDI from external keys/sequencer?
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Prophet-5/Prophet-10 / Re: Prophet 5 ERROR 8
« Last post by Fredbo65 on April 27, 2024, 03:14:05 PM »Thanks a lot, but at the moment trying to switching on the keyboard seems dead
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Prophet-5/Prophet-10 / Re: Prophet 5 ERROR 8
« Last post by Analog Prophet on April 27, 2024, 02:58:08 PM »Scary! Hopefully you’ll find the solution here:
https://support.sequential.com/hc/en-gb/articles/5314996425362-Prophet-5-10-Keyboard-Troubleshooting
https://support.sequential.com/hc/en-gb/articles/5314996425362-Prophet-5-10-Keyboard-Troubleshooting
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Prophet-5/Prophet-10 / Prophet 5 ERROR 8
« Last post by Fredbo65 on April 27, 2024, 02:46:38 PM »Hello to everybody.
This night happen some strange.
I turn on p5 REV 4 and after 30 minutes switch off alone. after a few minutes i tried to switch on again and appear " 8 " on display...
all button locked , and completely dead !! exist some combination for reset this?
Thanks
Fred
This night happen some strange.
I turn on p5 REV 4 and after 30 minutes switch off alone. after a few minutes i tried to switch on again and appear " 8 " on display...
all button locked , and completely dead !! exist some combination for reset this?
Thanks
Fred
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Off Topic / Re: Have you switched DAWs recently? Why?
« Last post by LPF83 on April 27, 2024, 01:30:27 PM »I've read that Digital Performer has a lot going for it when it comes to film scoring, and the right choice of a DAW has a lot to do with what it's intended use case is. I definitely wouldn't want to try film scoring with Ableton.
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Other Hardware/Software / Re: New Oberheim Synth?
« Last post by Quatschmacher on April 27, 2024, 07:33:03 AM »Guessing it’ll be like on the X8. Possibly hold the button and turn the “value” encoder to set the level.I appreciate the form factor but I do hope we will see this type of engine in a larger Polyphonic synth. I’d rather not have all their future products scaled down...especially a hybrid.
I've been itching for a polyphonic Pro3 myself. -- And an upgrade to the Pro3 firmware.
But on this... just having that [30 Source?] ModMatrix makes it awesome!
though... wtf is up with no mixer?.. - I hope there is one in the UI.
I didn’t even notice that. Bizarre. There must be some type of parameter in the menu. It would be an oversight if not.
Looks like only a single pulse width knob like on the X8 too, with presumably individual control in a menu.
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Off Topic / Re: Have you switched DAWs recently? Why?
« Last post by LoboLives on April 27, 2024, 07:11:12 AM »I’m Digital Performer full time now. Studio One was great but I found that it started to develop a lot of bugs. MIDI clock not being sent randomly and trying to score a film with it was problematic as the video would sometimes just go completely black and I had to keep reimporting it.
Digital Performer has been around forever and a day, it specializes in film scoring (used by John Carpenter and I found out recently Italian composer Claudio Maria Cordio), it’s insanely powerful and comes with a lot of great stuff plug in wise. The one thing I love is the idea of chunks, Audio to MIDI functionality, the conductor track (which allows you to slow or increase the BPM of a sequence among other things using markers, the Clips window is essentially Ableton’s performance capabilities if I want to just jam out, most importantly it sends MIDI time code so I can easily punch into a sequence and the sequencer in DP perfectly matches any external sequence I have going on my hardware. Bar 2 in DP will force my external sequencer to start at bar 2. This can be toggled on or off if desired.
I’m still getting used to it, especially when it comes to mixing and mastering. There’s not a lot of stock presets for the effects like there was in Studio One so it does require a lot of tweaking.
Digital Performer has been around forever and a day, it specializes in film scoring (used by John Carpenter and I found out recently Italian composer Claudio Maria Cordio), it’s insanely powerful and comes with a lot of great stuff plug in wise. The one thing I love is the idea of chunks, Audio to MIDI functionality, the conductor track (which allows you to slow or increase the BPM of a sequence among other things using markers, the Clips window is essentially Ableton’s performance capabilities if I want to just jam out, most importantly it sends MIDI time code so I can easily punch into a sequence and the sequencer in DP perfectly matches any external sequence I have going on my hardware. Bar 2 in DP will force my external sequencer to start at bar 2. This can be toggled on or off if desired.
I’m still getting used to it, especially when it comes to mixing and mastering. There’s not a lot of stock presets for the effects like there was in Studio One so it does require a lot of tweaking.
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Other Hardware/Software / Re: New Oberheim Synth?
« Last post by LoboLives on April 27, 2024, 06:57:37 AM »I appreciate the form factor but I do hope we will see this type of engine in a larger Polyphonic synth. I’d rather not have all their future products scaled down...especially a hybrid.
I've been itching for a polyphonic Pro3 myself. -- And an upgrade to the Pro3 firmware.
But on this... just having that [30 Source?] ModMatrix makes it awesome!
though... wtf is up with no mixer?.. - I hope there is one in the UI.
I didn’t even notice that. Bizarre. There must be some type of parameter in the menu. It would be an oversight if not.
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Off Topic / Re: Have you switched DAWs recently? Why?
« Last post by LPF83 on April 27, 2024, 03:58:46 AM »Recently is relative, I suppose, but I moved from Pro Tools to Logic (with attempted stops at the Harrison Mixbus and Studio One stations along the way) a few years back. When I started in PT, it was on a laptop sold to me by an audio engineer/producer who also had a day job at Apple. He was my tech support and tutor. My peers were all using PT too, so it was easy to ask questions or share tips in real time. All studios I worked in then were running PT - it was everywhere and I learned how to work with it as well as needed.
Just before the pandemic, I bought a second-hand MacBook, which came loaded with an older version of Logic. I started playing around with it and found it quite fun. The included instruments were great, and Logic Drummer was pretty amazing... a quick-sketch song demo sounded immediately real. That second-hand laptop didn't last and I bought myself a Mac Mini, partly so to be able to use the latest version of Logic. I love it - Logic feels far more creatively inspiring and playful than PT. I still dip into Pro Tools for archival stuff, but I never have reason to hang out there for long any longer.
P.S. - the fellow who sold me the laptop w PT on it way back when wrote a great review of Studio One for Tape Op magazine. That review sold me and I grabbed S1 on the spot. Didn't like it - couldn't make sense of it!! Funny, cos when I told him I'd then moved to Logic he laughed - Logic for him, he said, made no logical sense. That confirms for me that for some of us, there's really a personality fit at play in the world of DAWs.
I've never tried PT, simply because it seemed to be strong in the same areas Cubase is (like mixing), with Cubase having the upper hand at the areas of production (like MIDI editing) that mattered to me. I bought a copy of Logic Pro around 2013 and got reasonably familiar with it, and there was a lot that I liked about it - at the time I was also developing software for iOS and enjoyed learning about the Mac ecosystem. But my career has always required me to spend most of my daytime hours on the Windows platform, and once I was no longer spending X number of hours per day writing Objective-C code, using Macs just for music became cumbersome. So I decided whatever DAW I was going to invest in going forward was always going to have to work on either platform, Mac or Windows, so that my hardware options for the studio were always flexible; and that ruled out Logic and FLStudio (which at the time was PC specific and never good at hardware integration anyway). I do prefer to stay on Windows for music these days because of the cost effectiveness of the hardware and the Wintel platform is the king of backward compatibility, so I don't have to worry about waiting for updated versions of software whenever Apple decides to change their chip architecture or whatever. I am envious of MacOS ability to (as I understand it) run multiple disparate audio interfaces seamlessly without a limitation on number of inputs - but for my small studio that's more of a want than a need.
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OB-6 / Re: Support - OS 1.8.0 - MIDI-OX Doesn't like the syx file
« Last post by Quatschmacher on April 27, 2024, 03:39:56 AM »Hi Everyone,Email support@sequential.com if you want a guarantee that this will be read by the right people.
Just wanted to let anyone at support who's reading this know that MIDI-OX does not seem to like the 1.8.0 .syx file, at all.
I've tested on 3 different Windows machines running the latest version of MIDI-OX, with the default settings (And also adjusting the output buffer settings Num and Size to 1024 as recommended by the update guide)
All 3 failed in the same exact way. I've tried using both USB from OB6 direct to pc, as well as classic MIDI outs with an M-AUDIO Midisport 4x4.
The problem isn't the synth, or the MIDI interfaces. It's the syx file for sure. MIDI-OX basically has some sort of stroke when you send the file, and there is 0 data activity that flows through the outputs, even though MIDI-OX happily streams all the hex code across the output window as if it's doing things. It's not. It sits there, not sending a single byte out.
I then switched to another known good syx file, and midi-ox happily starts sending, and I can confirm by seeing the MIDI OUT LEDs start to flash in rapid succession.
I don't know of any other recommended Windows Sysex software, although I'm going to give Bome Send SX a try next time.
If I hadn't had a spare MacBook laying around (SysEx Librarian <3), I wouldn'tve been able to update my OB6
Please have a look at the syx file. Perhaps it's too large for MIDI-OX to understand, or there's some sort of hex command that's causing the entire datastream to halt?
Just wanted to throw this out there in case anyone else hasn't tried, and ultimately thinks it's their OB6 or MIDI interface being faulty.
I'm happy to be a guinea pig to test further as well.
Nothing but love for Sequential, Dave Smith, and Oberheim by the way. Thank you for all that you do!
