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OK, so I can confirm it is active sensing. Midi Monitor does not show any messages which is weird. I can filter it out except there is no way to stop the light for the corresponding in port from blinking it's receiving a message. And As far as I can tell there is no way to stop the Korgs from ...

Is there any way to send midi out for the drum track and karma engine without having local control on? It seems like the only way for me to get midi out for either is to enable local control.

It is likely MIDI “Active Sensing”. Most Korg and Roland keyboards have this enabled by default, although in some of the Rolands, you can disable it from the global menu. I have the same issue with my OASYS. The only way to keep the interface from lighting up with all the extraneous MIDI activity is ...

Most Korg keyboards will, by default, use an internal MIDI clock and these signals are also passed to MIDI Out, at something like 24 pulses per quarter note, allowing other devices to be synced to the keyboard's MIDI clock, which is driven by the Tempo setting. It is possible to stop these data ...

I get incoming midi messages registering on a Motu Midi Timepiece AV USB from all my Korg hardware, and only my Korg hardware. I have never been able to track down what these messages are and what they are for and if there is a way to stop them. Everything works ok, but they make it confusing ...