Please help!!!

[Bozit]

Hi there,

I just purchased a FATAR Studio 900 and I cannot get it to work. I am using my own power cable (9volt 400mA) and the light comes on fine when I turn it on.

I am connecting this cable: http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/graphics/midi/MIDI2.gif The one end it plugged into an Mbox 2 running pro tools 8 LE. and the other end goes to one of the midi inputs in the keyboard.

I have a little midi keyboard with only one midi output and when I plug that in it works. Do I need a midi cable that has two inputs at one end and one at the other.

Please help! As I am sure you guys understand the frustration when you can't get something to work when really you should be able to fix it. lol.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Bozit

 

[c7sus]

You need to set the MIDI send and receive channels in the Fatar.

I've never seen a MIDI cable such as you describe, also the linkee no workee.

If you want to run muliple MIDI devices at the same time you really need a 2x2 or 4x4 MIDI interface. You can try daisy-chaining but some devices won't work properly (dropped notes, note on messages that hang, etc.) so individual ins and outs for each MIDI device really is advantageous in that scenario.

 

[gecko zzed]

Hi there,

I just purchased a FATAR Studio 900 and I cannot get it to work. I am using my own power cable (9volt 400mA) and the light comes on fine when I turn it on.

I am connecting this cable: http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/graphics/midi/MIDI2.gif The one end it plugged into an Mbox 2 running pro tools 8 LE. and the other end goes to one of the midi inputs in the keyboard.

I have a little midi keyboard with only one midi output and when I plug that in it works. Do I need a midi cable that has two inputs at one end and one at the other.

Thoughts:

Why are you using your own power supply? Soes not the Fatar have its own? There is always a risk of a mismatch. For example, though I couldn't find specs for the 900 quickly, I did note that the Fatar 990 uses a 500mw supply.

If you are using the keyboard to drive PTLE then you connect the midi cable from midi out on the keyboard to midi in on the Mbox. You can safely ignore midi thru for the time being.

c7sus notes that you need to set the send and receive channels in the Fatar. You may need to do this. I'm not sure exactly how the Fatar works, but most keyboards, when switched on, use a default setting that should work straight away. If PTLE recognises the midi input on the Mbox with your other midi keyboard, then it should not care which keyboard is connected to it.

You don't need anything other than a standard DIN to DIN midi cable.

 

[Bozit]

Thank You!!!

Hi guys,

Thank you so much for all your replies.

I am using my own socket supply, because when my manager sent it up he did not include the original power supply as it would have cost much more (apparently he would have had to ship it as a seperate item) anyway he is sending it to me so hopefully it will work.

Apologies for the link not working, really I am just using an ordinary DIM/Midi cable. What I don't get is that when I connect my small midi keyboard it works fine, I can play straight away. No need to adjust any settings in Pro tools.

But the minute I plug in the Fatar there is no sound at all. I have tried setting the channel on the Fatar (instructions taken from the manual) to 1 or 2 just to see if it makes a difference, but nothing.

Do any of you think its worth buying a cheap midi to usb controller and see if that works?

What is quite unique is that it has two outputs? Maybe that isn't unique, but doesn't make sense to me.

Anyway guys, its doing my nut in and I am like a kid that broke his Christmas present

Thanks for all your feedback.

Peace

 

[c7sus]

Try setting the Fatar MIDI output to "omni" mode.

You dig that the Fatar doesn't have any sounds of it's own, right??? It's just a MIDI controller so it's looking for a soft synth or a synth module or drum machine or some other MIDI device to be on the other end of the MIDI out cable for it to send a MIDI message to.

Also, I would suggest using MIDI-ox to see if the Fatar is sending MIDI at all.

http://www.midiox.com/