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Awesome, I'm happy to help do some initial testing.  I'll shoot you an email

Laurent, would it be possible to get an AU version of the plug-in so we can use it in Logic Pro?

Laurent was able to help me solve the issue, which was largely user problem.  I didn't understand that you have to set the midi i/o in the 3FX app settings to be to/from the 3FX.

I seem to be having this issue with my 3FX when connected to my Macs, I sent you an email Laurent.  I have tried two different macs, multiple cables, and connected with USB hubs in between the 3FX and the Mac.  Unfortunately, seems like the app won't recognize my 3FX at all.  I have the touchscreen, so am able to use it in the meantime but obviously would like to get the Mac app working so I can program macros.

Looks cool, Laurent!  Looking forward to finding out more once you can share.

I think that's the most recent one.  Congrats, enjoy the river!

Update on this, I've been emailing with Laurent and he sent me an updated firmware that fixes the problem!  Merci

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.

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.

Wow, thanks for the extensive reply moonwatcher!  I missed it this last year, logged into the Baloran forum today for the first time since you responded, and wow it has been EXACTLY one year to the day!  Now I am inspired to trouble shoot my problem some more and see if I can get it working.  Thanks for the extensive description of your workflow and for confirming that my assumed settings were correct.

Simplifying my question, I would be curious to understand how to properly do two things:

1) Set up a layer that lets me play the river keyboard with an active arp, and send that MIDI out to the Cirklon to capture the arpeggiated notes

I would assume that I need to set up two layers:
Layer 1: Source: River | Dest: MIDI | Arp ON
Layer 2: Source MIDI | Dest: River
This should allow me to play my river, get arppegiated notes, send them to Cirklon, record them and then play them back from Cirklon into the River?

2) Set up a layer that lets me play the river keyboard with an active arp, and send that MIDI out to the Cirklon to capture the sustained chords, without the arpeggiated notes

I would assume that I need to set up two layers:
Layer 1: Source: River | Dest: MIDI |
Layer 2: Source MIDI | Dest: River | ARP ON
This should allow me to play my river, records the sustained chords without arppegiated notes inCirklon, play them back from Cirklon into the River where they are arpeggiated?

Unfortunately, neither of these methods is working for me so I'm afraid my assumptions are incorrect

Any help here understanding how to accomplish above using physical MIDI I/O (not USB) would be much appreciated.

For a while now, I've been using the river exclusively with my Cirklon, connected by hardware MIDI ports.  I have completely avoided using the USB Midi with a DAW.  Generally, I have two layers set up in Riverkey:

Layer 1 - Source: RIVER Dest: MIDI
Layer 2 - Source: MIDI Dest: River

This allows me to sequence the river from the Cirklon which is generally what I want to do.

Today, I made a multi on the River that has three channels of river sounds on three layers:

Channel 1 with 6 Voices active:
Layer 1 - Source: River Dest: River

Channel 2 with 1 voice active:
Layer 2: Source: River Dest: River (Arp = ON)

Channel 3 with 1 voice active
Layer 3: Source: River Dest: River (Arp ON)

This multi sounds really nice when I play it on the keyboard, I have some chords in layer 1, with a bass arp and lead arp in layer 2 and 3.

My problem is that I cannot figure out how to capture my performance in the Cirklon...

I tried to add a fourth layer, with Source: River Dest: MIDI and that didn't work.  I tried the different MODES (All, Selected, MIDI) and that didn't help.  I'm a little confused what is wrong here?

I am going to plug the River into my DAW using USB and see if I have better luck, it looks like the DUMP USB function might be helpful here?

It would be cool if we could get an updated magnetic strip for the river key, maybe as a group order or something.

I‘m interested in an iPad support in white, and the EEPROM.

I’ve been running the setup I described above successfully, except that I can’t get the River to respond to my incoming MIDI clock (coming in via the MIDI ports).  I’ve been working around this by just manually setting the tempo and then fixing the slight timing offsets in the DAW later, but I would like to figure out how to just always slave the River to the MIDI clock coming from my Cirklon.  Anyone have this working?