2nd phatty - 2nd disappointment

[deeait]

Hey guys,
some weeky ago i ordered my first slim phatty. I loved it´s sound, no question, but it was so full of flaws (tuning issues that no calibration could fix, even after hours of war up; crashes, hang ups, stuck notes and so on even after reboot, installing latest os,...) that i had to return it to my seller. He convinced me to try another unit, so i got it yesterday, and its still the same. Although this phatty warms up faster then the last, it still constantly crashes after some time. I use cubase 5.5 on win xp with an edirol ua66 firewire card. I use normal midi cables to connect the phatty, but with usb its the same. Sometimes everything just freezes up or it makes this falling sound and freezes; sometimes a simple reboot helps, at other times i have to let it rest for hours until i can restart. Of course i have the latest os 3.1 installed.

So, on the bottom line i´m really frustrated. I use several other analogue gear including newer ones like dsi tetra, but i never had a device that felt so unstable and unusable. Could there be anything in my setup that causes these crashes? Like cubase transmitting something that confuses it? I still can´t belive moog would produce and sell such a crappy device?? So please help, I´m still hoping this can be fixed somehow...

[deeait]

oh and i use midi yoke, could that be a problem?

[Assar]

How have you set up the midi filters in Cubase?
What midi connections do you use between you SP and your PC?

I have PC/Win, a Tetra and a LP.
The only time I have had problems like that is when the midi filters was sending midi in a loop with my LP, or when the Tetra was connected by both midi and usb at the same time.

[deeait]

i´m checking it out right now. i let you know as soon as i know more

[c7sus]

Try setting up the LP to send MIDI on one channel and receive MIDI on a different channel.

[deeait]

Ok i installed midi ox and the port control shows that one of the midi yoke ports is constantly sending midi messages. Strange thing is, i dont even use this port...
However, good news is: when i shut down that port in midi ox, the slim phatty seems to work. I´ll investigate this further, if i find anything interestin i´ll post it here.