Troubleshooting
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MIDI events are getting lost. Check the quality and
length of the cables (USB or DIN MIDI). Try alternative
cables. Reboot your computer to check if that resolves
the problem.
Stuck Notes
Notes that seem to be ‘stuck’ is almost certainly a sign that
MIDI data is being lost or corrupted. Check your cables and
MIDI drivers. Check that your controllers are not sending
contradictory MIDI data on the USB and DIN MIDI ports.
Stuck notes can be stopped by changing the Patch on the
front panel.
Timing Problems
There are several reasons why your compositions might
have individual notes, sequences of notes or whole
tracks/songs that appear to be playing out of time. This
would usually manifest itself as the audio from Kyra being
‘behind the beat’.
Your composition is too complex for MIDI. This primarily
relates to the DIN MIDI interface. MIDI was developed in
the early 80s and is a low speed interface. It is not capable
of complex, highly quantized compositions with lots of
real-time controller updates. The result of this is timing
problems or lost events in your tracks. The solution is to
either simplify your composition or to use USB MIDI which
operates considerably faster than DIN MIDI on Kyra. Note
that sending SysEx messages during a song is not recom-
mended, especially if using DIN MIDI.
If you’re feeding Kyra’s audio back into your DAW and
have other tracks using VST instruments or other instru-
ments, you will need to adjust the settings on your DAW to
match these. This is referred to
Delay Compensation
.
Kyra is extremely responsive to MIDI but you must ac-
count for the delay between the MIDI note play being sent
by your DAW and the audio being received back at your
DAW. The audio itself, whether via the stereo line outs or
via USB, must be received by your computer and this also
takes time. With a fast computer, USB MIDI and USB audio,
you should be able to achieve a ‘round-trip’ latency of 5-20
ms. If it’s more than that, check the settings and perfor-
mance of your computer. If it’s less than that, you can
either ignore it or use your DAW’s Delay Compensation
settings to eliminate it completely (it isn’t actually elimina-
ted, the MIDI events are just sent by your DAW slightly
earlier so that the audio is received back at the correct
time but the result is the audio is spot on the beat). The
impact of the latency depends on the type of music and
your tolerance of timing latency but the important fact us
that providing your system is configured correctly, you can
eliminate it completely. Please refer to the manual of your
DAW on how to configure Delay Compensation. Once con-
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