Channel stops working in combi mode, restart, it works? O.o

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rolias_mot
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Channel stops working in combi mode, restart, it works? O.o

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Anyone else get this issue? It's like it was designed by Microsoft...
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Re: Channel stops working in combi mode, restart, it works?

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1) What do you mean by "Channel"?
a) MIDI channel?
b) One of Combi timbres?
c) Output (LeFT/RIGHT or OUT1-2-3-4) channel?
c) something else?
2) What exactly looks this "stops working"?
a) Does not make sound at the same time when other "channels" (what ever you mean by that) do work?
b) Or how?
3) How/when does this "stop working" occurs?
a) Just randomly
b) After some certain time or action?
c) something else?
4) Does that happen just in any combi or some specific one?
a) If it is factory combi, then which combi and which "channel"?
5) Any MIDI devices connected to KRONOS?
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rolias_mot
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Post by rolias_mot »

Oops, let me clarify,

In combi mode, one of my channels (channel 6 this instance, has been other channels in the past), gradually lost volume over I think a period of 10 minutes. I tried to tweak the channel to boost volume, but nothing helped. Finally I restarted the kronos and, miraculously, channel works. Annoying as all get out since a power cycle takes a couple minutes and it was during a practice. O.o
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Post by alland »

So I get that this is some specific and particular combi (this does not happen with every combi or alweays with the same channel with many combis) where one of timbres loses volume.
(For clarity lets call combi parts "timbres" to distinguis them from MIDI "channels")
One possibility sounds me like there is some MIDI activity going on that timbre over time that makes volume lower...

1) Is this factory combi, got from somewhere or you made it yourself? Could you post that weird behaving combi here to inspect whether it behaves similarly on other Kronos?
2) Any MIDI gear connected to KRONOS?
3) Any KARMA involved (KARMA on? KARMA module assigned to that timbre?) with that combi and does that relates to that fenomenon?
4) What MIDI channel is assigned to that losing volume timbre? Does some other timbres share that same MIDI channel?
5) Does this volume diminishing happens whatever instrument you assign to that timbre?
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