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feathersMemberQuote:Hey Guys! Damn! Same problem here… I was confident that I would be able to control the V256 right off the box with my old keyboard (a stone age Viscount College, that since now worked superbly as MIDI controller), but no way… Does anyone can give me some advice? Thanks a lot!
If you’ve set your midi keyboard to the channel the v256 uses by default and it doesn’t respond then you probably have a faulty unit.
You should be able to set the v256 to omni so it works on all channels but if you know your keyboard is sending midi on the channel the v256 uses by default and no response then I suggest rma.
feathersMemberUpdate… John Pisani from EHX took me through steps to test the midi on the 256 last week. All tests failed and he concluded the midi was dead. The shop collected the unit last week and this morning a replacement V256 arrived… I went through the test steps using midiox as described by John last week and immediately I can hear this unit is responding correctly on midi.
feathersMemberQuote:I bought a second unit to get stereo carrier+mod vocoding on my DAW, had no problems with second unit.
Actually I found that there’s a lot of external synths that work better than the internal ones so in the long run I turned out not to even use this feature.As for this being a recurring problem, that’s the nature of manufacturing in medium sized lots: the facility is set up custom to do do a few hundred units that get built all on the same day, and that batch is warehoused and sold off for 6 months or a year. If soldering machine #23 was having problems that day, then a whole bunch of units in that batch will have issues with whatever part soldering machine #23 was processing.
Soldering machine #23 is a pain in the ass. I may end up not using the feature much. My intention is to use the vocoder with guitar primarily it’s just that I have a keyboard so I wanted to see how it was with that. You turn the pitch knob fully CW or CCW to disable the internal synths right? What synths have you been using?
feathersMemberQuote:The solution to my problem turned out to be that the unit was defective, probably a bad solder joint.
EHX offered to fix it for the cost of shipping but since it was within 30 days of purchase from Amazon i was able to just exchange straight for a new unit at no cost.An EHX engineer was helping me today via email. He concluded that my unit must also be faulty since it failed to respond to any codes even on channel 16. It’s being collected tomorrow by the shop (online purchase). They will send me a new one. Just wondering how many have defective midi?
With guitar it worked nicely. Nice vocode sounds.
feathersMemberQuote:Quote:I’ve read through this thread and others, but still can’t get my MIDI In to work on the V256. … So I have been trying to get it working with my Korg …Same here. I am trying to send data both from my DAW (Studio One V2) and directly from my M-Audio Keystation 88es. Both can send on MIDI channel 16, and to the degree that I can test the signal being sent, that’s what appears to be coming out of the midi cable.
However I have tried sending both note information as well as a CC 125 (all different vaues, ending with 0), and am getting no response from the v256 internal synth.
I am starting to wonder if there’s been some change to the v256 recently, since both mpb212 and I appear to be doing the right thing and there’s no response.
Are we missing out on some particular knob setting or something?
I’ve been trying since yesterday to get my 256 to work with midi. Tried sending the CC 125 on channel 16. Makes no difference. Forum seems pretty dead also. Long wait just for a single reply. Not impressed so far. First EHX purchase.
February 26, 2013 at 1:36 pm in reply to: I guess you’re on your own in terms of support when you buy an EHX product… #118786feathersMemberQuote:posting on the forum is no guarantee of tech support. Check the link in my sig for customer service.I did email tech service yesterday. No reply.
I have emailed them again now from one of the emails in your link.
The midi is truly dead on this unit. Don’t know if it’s hardware fault or just bad design requiring me to do all kinds of tricks to get the midi to respond.
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