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  • February 26, 2013 at 10:01 pm in reply to: V256 Vocoder midi not working #118798
    tungsten carbide
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    I use all soft synths (VST), and I’ve tried them all.
    Of course it’s more a matter of the timbre than the synth itself, but I have found that Cyclop by SugarBytes has a ton of presets that sound particularly good with the vocoder.
    Cyclop is nominally a specialist Bass synth marketed toward DnB-Dubstep-Elektro enthusiasts, so it’s geared toward adding the kind of modulation, distortion, and harmonic noise that go well with a vocoder. Because it’s a bass synth it’s primarily set up for multi-timbral monophonic (in the sense of one-key-at-a-time as opposed to “not stereo”) play.

    February 26, 2013 at 9:15 pm in reply to: V256 Vocoder midi not working #118796
    tungsten carbide
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    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.

    February 26, 2013 at 8:19 pm in reply to: V256 Vocoder midi not working #118794
    tungsten carbide
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    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.

    March 3, 2012 at 6:46 pm in reply to: V256 Vocoder midi not working #117077
    tungsten carbide
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    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?

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