my first unit got replaced, because there were problems with the calibration and on that one i had the problem quite frequently. I had a similar problem with double actuations on the erae as well. For a while, I thought my ears were fooling me, but MIDI Monitor corroborates what I’m hearing. I boiled it down to these groups of three, hitting MIDI Monitor’s “clear” button on the fourth note with the other hand so that I’m always looking at a clean log and won’t make a visual mistake. Trying different tempos and velocities, see if MIDI Monitor lists four notes played. Up till now, I think I was “hearing around” the error, accepting it as a sonic variation rather than a rhythmic error, but it was just too obtrusive with some drum kit pieces in dry patches so that I finally investigated.Ĭan you try this experiment? Using MIDI Monitor (on Mac), play groups of three notes as a constant rhythm, which is easy if you do a piano-style trill of fingers 2 and 3. closed hat) have very short releases so that the doubled note is prominent. The problem with percussion is that some sounds (e.g. I didn’t notice it until now because the doubled note is even shorter than a flam or regular grace note, so it can come off as a sonic quality rather than two notes. When I go to a regular pulse at a faster speed, whether playing naturally or tapping in a very controlled manner with the same finger going up and down, I get the frequent doubled note. If I do single taps in isolation (say, quarter notes at 60 BPM), it never happens. I’ve been examining the issue closely to see if there’s some playing technique or unexpected or unintended action or timing of the release (finger lift) that causes the doubled note. Perhaps its some kind of rebound on the surface I wonder if they could make a dedicated drum element for situations where you only need the note on, and that only transmits note on followed by a note off after a fixed interval, or an option for no note off at all because percussion plugins like BFD make no use of the note off. The Erae, of course, doesn’t transmit the note off until you release, and then it transmits note off velocity. The Zendrum always transmit snote off immediately after its note on, with no way to control the note off’s timing. It would be nice if the Erae had a way to suppress channel pressure since I’ve suppressed everything except that, and channel pressure seems to be the only difference from the Zendrum, which is triggers only. I can’t think of anything else to troubleshoot. This error is a dealbreaker for me since I’m all about the drum controller, with everything else being gravy. Playing the same BFD/Bitwig setup with my other connected controller, a Zendrum set up to transmit the same MIDI note numbers on the same channel, I don’t get a single error of this type. A stream of eighth notes results in random doublings. I can sometimes make it happen when playing one note or two notes, but when I play groups of three notes, MIDI Monitor verifies that–consistantly–about 1 in every 3-5 times, there are four MIDI note on’s. I’d say about 1 in 5 times, a non-rhythmic flam comes out instead of 1 eighth note. Playing straight eighth notes at about 110 BPM, I get frequent double actuations at all the grid positions and keys that I’ve checked. I disable all Pressure, Vibrato, and X- and Y- related stuff. I’m using drum grids or keys in four different presets I’ve created to play BFD’s drums hosted in Bitwig.
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