Hanging MIDI Notes

BassMasterK · November 24, 2018, 11:21pm

neglorpf:

I know this might be an old topic, but after my recent experience, I thought it might help.

I recently loaded the East/West Composer Cloud Collection, and overall, the samples sound great; however, while testing a few tracks, I couldn’t help but notice that certain notes would hang during very simple, slow, whole-note passages. Nothing that required a Panic Button reset; playing the hung note was enough to cancel it out. But this would be unacceptable under any circumstances, and so I set out to find the culprit.

I started by opening the East/West Play app to see if this was also happening here. Nope - all notes start and stop as they’re supposed to in all collections. That brought me back to Cubase (using C8 Pro here). I read the suggestions here, and about the only one that seemed to apply was unchecking Aftertouch. Still, that didn’t make any difference either.

Out of curiosity, I took a look at my MIDI Input setting - it was set to All MIDI Inputs. I then changed it to my main input (M-Audio Fast Track Ultra) - voila! No more note hang. Anywhere!

This is one of those moments when it might seem easy to pounce on either East/West or Steinberg - but at the end of the day, the culprit was something small and stupid that we users could control. Hope this helps.

I’m dragging this post out of the tar pits because this was exactly my problem and it wasn’t very obvious what the solution was. I added a ROLI Seaboard to my setup which worked perfectly. I hadn’t used my regular controller in a long time and today was using it for some piano stuff and the Kurzweil controller was having hanging notes on certain libraries, even if the ROLI wasn’t turned on. I had been using the “All MIDI Inputs” for years with my Kurzweil and never had a problem even when combined with a Korg nanoKontrol2 and a Breath Controller. It turned out that now I HAVE to select my controller specifically for my MIDI Input setting. So glad to have been able to solve this, it was driving me nuts. Hopefully this can help someone else in the same boat.