Cells jumping volume or phasing

Jaay

Hello all.

I'm running Battery 4 on a custom-made Windows 7-based PC, being played live through a MIDI controller. For the last few weeks I've been getting this weird situation where the cells containing my snare drums will act really weird, but the rest of the kit will be fine.

• I've had it where the snares jumped way up in volume
• I've had it where the snares will get this really heavy flange/phase effect

I don't think it's a hardware issue because the entire thing is running through a single 1/4" output. It's been suggested that it could be a Windows issue but I can't figure out why it would only affect the behavior of a few cells and only intermittently.

None of the settings change week-to-week, not the samples, not the parameters in Battery, nothing. I can't predict when this effect will occur or what will trigger it, and it's really stressing me out.

Help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

Jaay

Right direction, but I think wrong road. I've routed those same cells before without issue, BUT I did find another piece in my signal chain that had those same Note Numbers stacked on Channel 11 as well as 10. I think that's the more likely culprit.

I stripped out both the routing and the stack as a control and it worked fine last night, I'm going to see if it behaves itself.

Thank you! I wouldn't even have thought about a MIDI loop.

Jeremy_NI

@Jaay So it's in standalone, not in a DAW? IF it's within a DAW, what DAW is it? What MIDI controller is it?

What you describe could be a MIDI loop happening on some of the pads, is it related to certain cells or MIDI notes?

Jaay

@Jeremy_NI

Hello!!

Yes, it's a standalone. I'm not running anything else on that machine, and it's being controlled by a Zendrum MIDI controller.

It does only happen on certain cells and note numbers. I don't recall the cells offhand, but the Note Numbers are 5, 13, and 38.

Jeremy_NI

@Jaay Unfortunately I never had the chance to play with a Zendrum. If the issue arises with the same notes every time and if you are not able to reproduce the behaviour by clicking the cells in Battery 4 on the screen then it could be settings of the controller. Are you able to reproduce the issue with any Battery kits?

Jaay

@Jeremy_NI I did remember that the Note Numbers in question do have duplicates in other cells for routing purposes. I'll try removing those and see if it helps.

I can't reproduce the issue every time; it's intermittent. You mentioned possible setting alterations in the controller, which ones would I look at?

I've been able to reproduce it in that it keeps happening, but the only thing I've been doing is powering on the machine.

Jeremy_NI

I did remember that the Note Numbers in question do have duplicates in other cells for routing purposes.

Well, that sounds like the source of your problem here.

Jaay

Right direction, but I think wrong road. I've routed those same cells before without issue, BUT I did find another piece in my signal chain that had those same Note Numbers stacked on Channel 11 as well as 10. I think that's the more likely culprit.

I stripped out both the routing and the stack as a control and it worked fine last night, I'm going to see if it behaves itself.

Thank you! I wouldn't even have thought about a MIDI loop.