chillbot
Sock Muppet
Anyone have any tricks or suggestions for this?
I'm asking this here because it's happened to me with multiple controllers in the past, figured it might be somewhat common.
What happens is the pitch bend wheel gets a bit "loosey goosey" and will transmit random midi pitch bend data while I'm recording midi notes. Nothing significant, not like pitch bend an entire half step, but maybe +/- 500 (on a scale of -8,192 to +8,191). Like it's not snapping back to zero entirely.
In the past when this happens I can usually scientifically fix it by giving the wheel a good "wiggle" which tends to reset it to zero. But this time I've been wiggling it all over the place and even tried a few waggles, not helping. Still transmitting random data. Doesn't seem to be connected to bumping the keyboard or playing hard velocities.
I realize as I'm typing this, since I switched from my lovely Kurzweil about 20 years ago, my last three controllers have been Yamahas (because I love the touch), so maybe it's a Yamaha wheel thing? Currently using a Motif XF8 as main controller.
Wondering if there's any hacks short of taking the entire beast apart to adjust the spring/tension or replacing the entire wheel?
(Alternatively, I could just ignore the +/- 500 and chalk it up to adding a bit of "color" or intonation, since in most cases that works out to about ~12 cents. But dang my OCD...)
I'm asking this here because it's happened to me with multiple controllers in the past, figured it might be somewhat common.
What happens is the pitch bend wheel gets a bit "loosey goosey" and will transmit random midi pitch bend data while I'm recording midi notes. Nothing significant, not like pitch bend an entire half step, but maybe +/- 500 (on a scale of -8,192 to +8,191). Like it's not snapping back to zero entirely.
In the past when this happens I can usually scientifically fix it by giving the wheel a good "wiggle" which tends to reset it to zero. But this time I've been wiggling it all over the place and even tried a few waggles, not helping. Still transmitting random data. Doesn't seem to be connected to bumping the keyboard or playing hard velocities.
I realize as I'm typing this, since I switched from my lovely Kurzweil about 20 years ago, my last three controllers have been Yamahas (because I love the touch), so maybe it's a Yamaha wheel thing? Currently using a Motif XF8 as main controller.
Wondering if there's any hacks short of taking the entire beast apart to adjust the spring/tension or replacing the entire wheel?
(Alternatively, I could just ignore the +/- 500 and chalk it up to adding a bit of "color" or intonation, since in most cases that works out to about ~12 cents. But dang my OCD...)