Hello SOS Forum readership.

I hope everyone is well. A little adive needed if possible please. So last night I was over at a friend's house and we hooked up his Alesis DM5 drum kit via a standard MIDI cable to his Foucusrite Saffire sound card. This is normally entirely uneventful, but this time for some reason every time a drum was struck there was a pretty irritating "ping" sound (like the noise from "pong" old school Atari fans) audible along with the sound of the drum we were triggering from the EXS24 in Logic.

I tried tooling around in Logic's MIDI settings and also in the MIDI set up Utility of the mac but no dice. I am also pretty sure that the sound isn't being generated from inside Logic, but I can't quite remember why I thought that.

Any ideas how to stop it happening again? - it was really annoying and got in the way of what could otherwise of been an enjoyable session of bad drum playing.

Many thanks in advance!

Luke

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please make it all simple.

You must surely have the MIDI routed to something. If it's not an external synth then it must be a plug-in - maybe something being used to generate a metronome click?

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An Eagle for an Emperor, A Kestrel for a Knave.

Thanks for the reply - Its a bit annoying as I am not there at ther moment to check, but I am pretty sure that I just had the MIDi coming into MIDI channel 1 and that was that. It was really odd....

I'll maybe have to post again next time I am round at my friend's place...

Thanksagain

Luke

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please make it all simple.