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  1. That seems like where I started. I may get around to trying to snoop the midi via IAC. Mainstage has a builtin midi monitor but it only shows incoming messages, as far as I can tell. I don't see anything when the program changes (but not stage settings in spite of MSB 112 LSB 0 or none) are happening.
  2. Thanks for all the suggestions, Brad. In mainstage I have Send Program Change selected, and Send Bank Select on the midi out tab. One thing I noice is that the program change happens whether or not Bank select is 112, so that either seems not to be sent or not received. The mac I'm running Mainstage on has no other midi apps installed so I'd have to do some work to snoop on the messages, maybe install a midi python lib and send to the IAC midi channel. I did just notice in Mainstage there are two places to set the Bank Select / PC ; under patch settings / attributes, and on the external instrument channel strip. I just tried the patch settings checkboxes which were unchecked, this seems not to have any effect immediatley when dragging the program change slider, or if I select another patch and return to the one with the channel strip sending.
  3. Sorry, I think it was on another site that someone used that phrase. Looking at the manual it seemed to me that basic control channel was what was wanted, it was the only likely sounding option in the menus. I observe that setting basic channel to 5, Mainstage does program changes on channel 5 in the mixer (while the stage setting is unchanged). I know this because in Mainstage I connect another keyboard as input to the Mainstage control strip. Otherwise with channel 5 (instead of the default 1-16) I don't hear changes when playing the PX5S keyboard.
  4. Yes, I think I mentioned that in the first post. You used a phrase like master control channel, which might be a problem. Is that something besides what is labeled basic channel? I spent some time with the getting started and midi implementation and don't remember seeing anything with that label. That was the next thing I thought I'd try digging into (again). I am also using a midi in from my interface (not usb) , both are on.
  5. I noticed that you can add channel strip components, so I added midi output on the external instrument channel strip. This did not show the settings from the concert but had reverted 1-16. I changed the channel strip level to use channel 5 but didn't see any difference in the behavior.
  6. I'm not sure if there's another place to do this, but I went to the midi tab under the concert, changed device from all to the specific one that I'm testin, changed channels from 1-16 to 5, tried with and without Send unused program changes to channel strips. I seem to get similar / same behavior - single tone changes running up from somewhere in the tone bank for the currently selected stage setting. If I pick a different tone group, program changes operate within that tone group. Under settings/midi,I might guess Setup button but that takes me into audio settings.
  7. Also failing with this task. What I see, using 112 for bank value PrgBank set, basic chan 5, no filtering, is that program change moves through the tone presets starting with whatever tone group the currently selected stage setting uses for zone 1. So if I'm on stage setting 0,0 using a piano tone, I step through piano tones. Actually I'm not sure it's zone 1 - just changed to a rhodes setting using hex layer for zone 1 and it starte cycling through electric piano patches, which all the other zones reference though they are off.
  8. I'm having a variation of this on A over middle C. Air blast worked for a minute. I've tried the volume limit on the zone (I take it this means zone under stage settings). That didn't work for me, but what did work was turning the velocity sensitivity on the tone (not anywhere in the Stage Setting) way down. This limits expression but better than nothing. It's like some preset voices I've heard on other pianos that are like soft hammers. Is there a global setting for zone volume that I don't know or have forgotten? I tried master volume in the system settings generator section, no. Changing velocity sensitivity in tone made the note silent, changing volume didn't make much difference. Amp volume settings in the tone, not much difference. Anyway as it is I can pick a couple of settings like one acoustic and one rhodes setting and do this trick.
  9. I found a tip elsewhere in the forums to clean the pot by running it back and forth a few times and this seems possibly to have improved it.
  10. It is easy to edit a few piano sounds to make the mod wheel not assigned to any CC value. But I've been using a user Hammond patch that uses the mod wheel for the fundamental, and it would suddenly drop out in a range around the all down position. I'll probably edit that sound as well just to fix the fundamental full or nearly full on, which is almost always where I want it.
  11. I've recently developed a situation where the mod wheel on my PX-5S seems to drift a bit so that I might get a vibrato even though I just turned it down. Vigorous playing may cause it to move a bit. This is after a few years of lugging it around to gigs and rehearsals so not completely surprising, but it sounds a bit like what's happening above. I think it will have to go in for repair, but I was looking for a global filter in the menus and found something like knob calibration. I wondered if there might be a way to give some offset so that the CC 'zero' actually corresponds to an offset of the wheels physical position. It looks like it's intended to set sliders or knob centers.
  12. Ok so reviewing the manual I can see that I might have corrupted stage settings by switching voices after editing something. ,I think I can get myself back in pretty good shape by something like: Reload my corrupted "all" from usb Turn off the filter Save out any of my own edited stage settings that seem to be OK to USB Reload an older uncorrupted version of the 'all' file Reload my stage settings EDIT: mostly that wasn't necessary - even though stage settings would temporarily misbehave I don't think they were actually corrupted when saving all to USB.
  13. Stage settings filter is indeed "on" for pedal 1 on the all file where weird things happen, and "off" for pedal one on the older one.
  14. Here's a thing I just discovered. I loaded an older "All" file, replaced the 0.6 organ with the one I saved, and did not lose sustain. So it seems like it might be something that got saved recently in an "All" settings file.
  15. I feel like I might have touched that when trying to resolve the issue with the sustain pedal a couple of weeks ago. Does that span stage settings in some way?
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