I'm loving the pool so far, and have made some great patches. So far I've been running it standalone, so I send MIDI clock from my Cirklon (via MIDI cable, I am not using USB). I've been using the Pool's internal arpeggiator and sequencer, and everything has been working pretty well. I am able to transpose sequences from my master keyboard, so that's been working as I'd expect. Now, I am starting to sequence the Pool directly from the Cirklon without using the on-board Arp/Seq, and I am having problems. The sequence I play from the Cirklon will give me hung notes, and the Pool stops responding to incoming MIDI completely. A MIDI reset (from the Cirklon) will not fix the hung notes, only re-loading the patch on the Pool will cause silence. But when I play the Cirklon again, the Pool will repeat above behavior. Is anyone else having problems like this? The patch I am currently trying to sequence is MONO, on MIDI channel 1. Auto Change CH is set to NONE, and USB Link is set to DAW & Key but it doesn't seem like that should matter since I am not using USB midi. I'm a little lost so curious if anyone has been able to sequence reliably from an external sequencer and can share some setting that could be the culprit here.
I sent Laurent some videos via email showing the issue. I also remembered that when I first received my River, I was having a similar issue that Laurent fixed with a firmware update.
Ok, well received. I haven't Cirklon for test. With Ableton Live and Arturia Seq Keyboard,no problem. Cirklon is terrible :D :D Can you test if Cirklon send noteOn with velocity=0 for noteOff equivalent ?
USB Link is just for USB. Have you connect POOL Midi Out to Cirklon MIDI IN ? And Without this link, problem is the same ?
Update on this, I've been emailing with Laurent and he sent me an updated firmware that fixes the problem! Merci :)
;) Cirklon uses the note on with a velocity of 0 which should be interpreted as a note off. This is authorized by the midi standard, I had forgotten it for The Pool. I still don't see the point in the Note Off, but that's how it is 8)