From tande.adamson@btinternet.com Fri Sep 16 11:17:44 2005
Subject:Re: Leslie 2101 and XK-3 midi oddity


>
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:28:20 -0000
> "Thomas Adamson" wrote:
> > I have just received my 2102 Leslie and have set it
> >up to use a line
> > in for the rotary sound and midi control for the
> >slow/fast speed
> > changes.
> >
> > I have been having some trouble setting it up, for as
> >soon as I get
> > it sorted for speed, it decides to set the slow speed
> >horn and drum
> > parameters to zero and the fast speed horn to 1 which
> >doesn't sound
> > great at all.
> >
> > I couldn't figure out what was going wrong at first,
> >thinking maybe
> > using the demo programmes on my XK-3, which are handy
> >for setting up
> > the rotary parameters, was somehow sending a spurious
> >midi cc# to
> > the unit, when being switched back to 'play'.
> >
> > In the end I discovered that in fact it was switching on
> >the XK-3's
> > percussion tabs that was affecting the rotary speed set
> >up.
> > It seems odd that as the unit is designed to use either
> >a Leslie
> > cable, or footswitch, or midi lead, to change speeds
> >that it
> > receives spurious and unwanted messages from its
> >stablemate XK-3
> > organ.
> >
> > Maybe there is a way to switch off sysex messages, yet
> >retain
> > control of the speed change on cc#1?
> > I fixed the problem for now by using a separate midi
> >line from
> > another controller footswitch. I'll check out the XK-3
> >manual to see
> > if there's a way to switch off these messages, but in
> >the meantime
> > if any-one tries to set up their XK-3/2101 using a
> >line-in rather
> > than a Leslie cable, with midi control, you may find it,
> >not at all
> > straight forward.
> > If so, you don't need to waste as much time as I have
> >finding out
> > what's causing the problem.
> > Thomas.
> >
> >
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