Touchmaster Oddski
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MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
#983155 - 19/04/12 06:14 PM
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I have just bought an ancient MOTU MIDI EXPRESS XT PARALLEL, and am trying to get it
running on my Windows XP Cubase 5 system. and its proven a week long nightmare so far!
I have followed the parallel port and IRQ setting tips, and it recognises the MIDI
device and can run Clockworks etc. but does not seem to run smoothly at all - i.e. as soon
as a couple of channels of midi data are running through it it starts to drop beats, chug
along and cut out the sound, generally glitchy and unusable. I have tried loads of
combinations of midi timecode, cubase sending it to the MOTU, the MOTU sending it to
cubase etc. and cant seem to make it work with any stability.
Anyone got any
ideas before I cause my brain to blow a fuse? You'll accrue some serious Karma
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OneWorld
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Touchmaster Oddski]
#983377 - 20/04/12 05:48 PM
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Think you've bought yourself trouble with that - don't think the parallel every worked
that well post Win98, and when yo say Cubase 5, I am taking that to mean the latest C5 and
not the original which used a parellel port dongle?
One thing yo might look
at is to disable/filter out sysex in Cubase Preferences
And could it be
anything to do with the printer port settings?
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The Elf
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Touchmaster Oddski]
#983379 - 20/04/12 05:58 PM
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I tend to agree with the above. That's ancient technology and will likely bring you to
tears trying to get it working properly. I'd advise you to cut your (hopefully small)
losses and head towards USB - sorry!
If you're on a tight budget, but need a
lot of MIDI I/O then by shopping around you should be able to pick up a Steinberg MIDEX8
for the price of a curry - it will even work on Win 7, though the drivers do not have
official Steinberg support.
Better still, though more costly, might be a MOTU
MIDI Express 128 - a pair of which grace my own studio and with which I am quite content.
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robinv
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Touchmaster Oddski]
#983473 - 21/04/12 11:25 AM
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Quick question for clarification - are you using the recent Cubase 5 with a USB dongle or
the old Cubase 5 with a parallel port dongle? If you're using the ancient version then
that might cause a problem running the interface through the dongle - if you are using a
crack of the old version then that will seriously mess with the parallel ports rendering
them useless for MIDI as it's essentially been "confused" by the protection hack. Just a thought. The other one would be to change parallel port modes - you
can (if i remember rightly) choose between omni and bi-directional - see if that makes a
difference. Failing that i came across my Windows 98 install CD just the other
day that i could lend you 
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OneWorld
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: robinv]
#983631 - 22/04/12 02:00 PM
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Quote robinv:
Just a
thought.
The other one would be to change parallel port modes - you can (if i
remember rightly) choose between omni and bi-directional - see if that makes a
difference.
Failing that i came across my Windows 98 install CD just the other
day that i could lend you
I came a cross an old Win98 2nd
Edition, with USB CD and put it on eBay - got £20 for it!
To check it out
before selling I installed it on a spare PC and it booted in something like 10 seconds -
come back Win98 all is forgiven!
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Touchmaster Oddski
Joined: 26/02/08
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Touchmaster Oddski]
#983771 - 23/04/12 11:11 AM
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Yes, after a week of painful faffing I bit the bullet and got an ESI 8 way USB model
instead. Oh well, you live and learn. Anyone running an old computer want to take this off
my hands for £20? 
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Martin Walker
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Touchmaster Oddski]
#984080 - 24/04/12 10:53 PM
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I doubt that you will have many takers for that TO - even if its heyday the parallel port
connected MIDI interface wasn’t THAT popular Martin
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OneWorld
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Re: MOTU Midi Express XT Parallel & Cubase 5 nightmare
[Re: Martin Walker]
#984303 - 25/04/12 09:14 PM
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Quote Martin Walker:
I doubt that
you will have many takers for that TO - even if its heyday the parallel port connected
MIDI interface wasn’t THAT popular
Martin
My first
instinct when I read things like this is surely there is opportunity for some kind of
charity to be able to take this sort of stuff and send it to developing countries, but
after some consideration, nah, we'd only be sending them trouble.
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