Zipper (stepping) noise when MIDI is connected

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I’ve been doing a lot of ambient music with the Voyager (Select Series OS 3.4) and I am noticing zippering when manipulating controls while playing sounds. Particularly when moving the filter cutoff.

I saw this thread;
http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1615&highlight=zipper

Where someone mentions a “dodgy” MIDI cable being the source of the problem. I pulled the MIDI Out connection from the Voyager, voila, no zippering! OK. I swap cables. And with another cable, I have the same problem.

So what am I missing here? No MIDI cable connected to the MIDI Out = no zippering. Could it really be two cables that otherwise work fine causing the zippering sound?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

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Please switch OFF the local control in the MASTER menu or disconnect the MIDI input.
Have fun,
Rudi

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do you have a midi loop? ie a sequencer or something where midi bounces back to the voyager? having so will cause zippering ime.

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Thank you for the replies guys.
I don’t believe I have a MIDI loop. I am not sending MIDI in or out in the app I am presently using. But I am using the Voyager Librarian that does.

That said, I get the stepping with the Voyager Librarian inactive.

I’ll try Rudi’s suggestion later on tonight. Hopefully it does the trick!