Logic not recognising MIDI 'note on' for one specific note!

[MonoPoly307]

Hi guys,

 

I would love any help anyone at all can offer on this weird puzzle I'm experiencing with LPX.

 

I am a seasoned Logic user and am pretty comfortable diagnosing MIDI issues in general, but this problem absolutely has me stumped... and is really frustrating!

 

Here's a quick summary...

 

- When recording or playing MIDI (for example, a software synth let's say), every note played from my main MIDI keyboard - a Nord Stage 2 - is playing fine in Logic, with the exception of F2, which does not play a note. When I look at the "MIDI in/out display" in the transport screen area, I notice that the F2 in question is only sending a note-off signal for that one particular key, not a note-on signal.

 

Here are some of the things I have ruled out in trying to solve the issue:

 

- To ensure it's not a problem with the actual F2 key on the Nord, I have tried one of my other MIDI synths (a Kurzweil PC3, in fact). Logic has no problem receiving the note-on and note-off signal for F2 when transmitted from the Kurzweil.

 

- To try to narrow it down to Logic only, I opened Pro Tools, which was able to receive the F2 MIDI note from my Nord without any problem. This seems to clear the Nord of having any fault.

 

- In case it was some weird incompatibility issue with the instrument plug-in I was using, I tried another instrument plug-in. F2 still doesn't receive the note-on signal for that one note! (Which makes sense, as it seems to be a global Logic MIDI-in issue, not an issue with MIDI data once it is received by Logic.)

 

- I also decided to open MainStage to see how that would respond to the Nord playing the F2 note... absolutely fine!

 

- Back in Logic, I also tried changing the Nord's MIDI-out channel from 1 to 2... and strangely, Logic did receive the F2 note just fine in this scenario! (However, I need to use the Nord on MIDI channel 1, as there are other synths in the room that are assigned to different MIDI channels... so this is not really a solution to the problem.)

 

In a nutshell, it appears that Logic (yet not MainStage or Pro Tools) doesn't like receiving the note-on MIDI signal for that one note, F2, when it is transmitted specifically from my Nord Stage over MIDI channel 1!

 

I would love it if anyone could suggest anything else I should test or examine in attempting to resolve this problem!

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!

 

Cheers,

Mike

[Jordi Torres]

Open the controller assignments window and go to the Expert View. Delete the assignment for that note.

 

Also, please click this link to your signature and add your system information:

• Logic version and sub-version (e.g. Logic 10.0.3)

• OS X version and sub-version (e.g. OS 10.8.5)

• Computer (e.g. MacBook, Mac Pro, iMac)

• Processor (e.g. 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)

• Memory (e.g. 2GB)

• Audio interface manufacturer and model (e.g. Presonus AudioBox USB)

• MIDI Controller manufacturer and model (e.g. M-Audio Axiom Pro 49)

 

(most of that information can be found by choosing Logic Pro X > About Logic Pro X, and  > About This Mac)

 

J.

[MonoPoly307]

Hi Jordi,

 

Thanks very much for your suggestion - I did exactly that, and it is now resolved! As you suspected, F2 on channel 1 of the Nord was set up as a key command!

 

I wonder if you would give me your thoughts on this post that I made on the forum a while ago?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=99153&p=520120#p520120

 

I still haven't solved that one, and even the process you suggested above for the F2 issue doesn't seem to help.

 

What are your thoughts?

 

Cheers,

Mike

[ptrickf]

I know this was asked a long time ago but I was just about to take my keyboard apart when I thought ....I'll just see if someone else has had this problem... and of course I had assigned a note to some control without realising it. Actually I do this fairly often and it always takes me a while for my dim mind to arrive at the solution. Today I got here via Google. So many thanks to Sequentialist for asking this question, and asking it in exactly the same way I put into Google so it came up first, and thank you Jordi for the answer, and thank you David and everyone for this amazing resource

[Jordi Torres]

Glad to read this thread helped you, ptrickf.

 

J.

[Zvon]

Thanks for this thread, just had the same issue and I was able to fix it quickly!