Hey, sorry I checked out for a bit, I'm not positive it's the same issue that was/is crashing the mrcc, but making a new thread for others. I was hoping the firmware update might catch this somewhere and get lucky, but no dice. Unfortunately, I'm in ableton mode so using that again and midicake is crashing it quite often (9 times in last hour)
It could be something else, but it seems like all signs point to cake.
brand new computer / fresh installs
computer and ableton working fine all day and last week, moment plugged in cake crashing consistently (including on brand new projects)
my midi monitor consistently after every crash the last messages were the note offs for every channel
in crash logs, it looks like midi thread is locking up but not so helpful
Maybe Good News?
The note offs are actually not the last message, but there is always a couple straggler notes thta come after (like 1 to 5). I don't know how midi handles this but could things be choking on the note sends directly after the note offs? General Info
Macbook
Ableton 12
latest cake firmware
midi over usb
Thanks!
Cake is definitely one of my favorite devices and I love how it works, hoping this one can get fixed! I want to use more cake but I keep getting k/oed
All the best
Hey I think I have the same setup as you, but here's the screen shots in case there's something I'm not seeing :)
'-> ARP' is my Lead Sheet, others are back in to Able
Hope it helps :)
Hey yea, I have all of that stuff hooked up and working properly, the only issue is the crashes keep wiping a bit of work, especially with serum. Removing serum helped reduce frequency but they're still definitely an issue.
Is it possible that something is corrupt on my hardware? Three devices crashing in the same way with cake (MRCC, Digitone, Ableton).
You can tell that something is blocking the main thread because the ui starts to glitch up a little bit before it catches up with itself, eventually crashing (or rarely just fully locking until I kill it). It feels like the same as the behavior when I experienced the other hardware crashes with cake on Digitone and MRCC.
It has all the tell tale signs of software locking up in a loop somewhere, it seems like midi based on other behavior, and my assumption is that it's something with MIDI-CC messages because blocking them immediately resolves my issue.
Cake Loops:
I think whenever there's a loop in the setup (which happens a lot with cake), like in the example above: ABLETON CHORDS -> out to -> CAKE CAKE MAGIC -> back to ABLETON Then one of the devices sends a stop or all notes command or something at the wrong time and they get trapped telling each other to stop. This might be why I'm experiencing it when others aren't because I'm also obsessive about the stop button. I don't trust things to ever start correctly and double tap the stop button reflexively.
Maybe Helpful Details in case they point somewhere:
obsessive stop button tapper (see above)
cake has always been MIDI-Control: IN in all of my cases where things got locked up
I'm usually using USB
I removed all sync and just used Live-Play for a bit and no crashes, but lost some of the rhythms
my chord out track from ableton to cake always has a negative 6 to 10 millisecond predelay (otherwise chord changes take affect on arp after the downbeat and an attack is added on the second beat if one is not there in the rhythm ptrn)
Nice Things::
it's not all bad! when things crash, I usually don't lost much on the cake since it's all saved outside of the computer
the new binary modes are really neat, a great way to reign in things getting loose and make some variety. Also great UI/X
I still love cake even tho she is crashing all of my things haha
Hi Logan,
Can you share how you have ARP configured in Ableton's MIDI setup screen?
I use Ableton and ARP daily with no issues so something is amiss.
How are you trying to work? Just using Ableton as VST host and MIDI recording or more?
Let us know and I'll try to find the cause.