Arturia Minilab MK3 seems to cause my Maschine+ to reboot. Anyone else running into this?

ndguardian · 2023-01-30T04:42:52+00:00

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Hey there!

So I decided out of the blue to try hooking up my Arturia Minilab MK3 into my Maschine+, but it seems that it causes a boot loop upon doing so. This boot loop persists for as long as I keep my Minilab hooked up.

Has anyone here experienced this issue?

I've verified my firmware is up to date on both the Maschine and the Minilab, Minilab works fine with hooked up to a computer, and I've also tried setting the Minilab to low power mode to see if that offers any improvement. It doesn't.

Anyway just wanted to see if anyone else has run into this before.

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ndguardian

Hey there!

First off, apologies for the delayed followup on this. I did get a ticket in with Arturia, and they are working on getting a Maschine+ to test with.

On my side, I finally got around to getting a powered USB hub to test with as well. Good news is it seems to work just fine. Oddly though, it works even without having power plugged in to the hub, so power doesn't seem to be the issue here. I found that a little confusing.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know.

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Jeremy_NI

@ndguardian Thanks for the update! At least you have a working workaround!

Styles01

Hey I'm having this issue too. Minilab 3 def causes Maschine to restart as soon as you hit a key. Confirmed that happens in both USB-A ports. Adding to the issue is that the minilab 3 is a USB-C device (comes with a C-A cable, which, of course fits in the USB-A port of the Maschine+). Would need to find a powered USB hub, but it def adds to the annoyance, because Maschine+ with a powerbank, a battery powered speaker and a tiny midi keyboard (like Minilab) is the optimal on-the-go all-in one livelooping station.

Styles01

To be honest, this doesn't seem like a power issue, as the Maschine+ seems to reset as soon as you enable MIDI in from the Minilab USB.

Styles01

Update: this seems to be some sort of corruption in the messaging over USB. It works fine if you connect both the USB cable and a midi cable, and then on the Maschine+ select the "oldschool" midi cable as your input [Minilab shows up as 4 different USB inputs for some reason].

The USB works to power your minilab, and if you also use a midi cable as the messenger, you're good to go.

Hopefully NI and Arturia can work out what's going on in the USB messaging that's causing Maschine+ to reset.

Aziz

Ordered the minilab 3 to use it with maschine + and just found this post, can anyone confirm if the issue was resolved yet?

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