User Manual

Troubleshooting
115
Performance
Functions
Editing
Sequencer
(Creating Songs)
Sampler Pads DAW
Appendix
Overview Performing Settings
Appendix
Problem Items to check Action Page
After using a MIDI
sequencer to play a song,
sounds stopped playing
No sound is played even
when Program Changes
are sent.
Could the song data include Bank Select data that is not
dened on the FA?
It could be that a Bank Select in the song data that is not specied
by the FA was encountered in the song. No sound is played if the
tone group is not one designated by the FA with Bank Select MSB/
LSB. Note that if you omit the Bank Select, and send only the Program
Change, the tone in the currently selected group that has the specied
Program Change number will play. Try resettling the tone using the
panel controls. Furthermore, when selecting tones from an external
MIDI device, be sure to send the Bank Select MSB/LSB and the Program
Change as a single set for reliable reproduction. First sending the MSB
and LSB (the order in which these are sent does not matter), followed
by the Program Change.
In some cases, you may be unable to hear any sound after playing the
last song that was faded-out. This may be because the volume has
been lowered by volume messages or expression messages. Check the
value of these messages, and set them to appropriate values.
p. 68
Performances are sluggish,
or have interruptions
Are more than 128 voices playing simultaneously?
Reduce the number of voices. With certain sounds like continuous
sounds with long releases, even though the actual sound may not be
audible to you, processing for playing the sound is still underway, so
in these cases as well, the performance data can dier from the actual
number of voices being played.
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Are you using a tone that uses a lot of LFO?
Try changing to a dierent tone. LFO processing invariably places a big
load on the machine, so heavy use of the LFO slows down processing
for the FA overall, which can end up having aecting the expression of
sounds themselves.
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Is the data concentrated at the beginning of the beats in
the sequence data?
Avoid overlapping data with the same timing by setting an oset
of 1–2 tick instead. Data may easily become concentrated at the
beginning of the beats in the song data when, for example, the song
data is input using Step Recording, or if the data is quantized after
being input with a keyboard in real time.
Because of this, large amounts of data are sent to the FA, and the
processing for expressing sounds becomes bogged down.
p. 68
Is there a Program Change at the point where the song
performance is sluggish?
Change the position of the Program Change. When Program Changes
are inserted in songs, processing time for switching tones increases,
which may then cause the performance to become sluggish.
Is there a System Exclusive message at the point where the
song performance is sluggish?
Move the location of the data. System Exclusive messages contain
large amounts of data, thus placing a heavy burden on sequencers and
sound modules. Try repositioning data and changing System Exclusive
messages to Control Changes for any data for which Control Changes
can be substituted.
Is there an Aftertouch or other such large Control Change
at the point where the song performance is sluggish?
If the data is no longer needed, delete the data.
Problems with saving
A studio set sounds
dierent than when you
saved it
Save the tones.
If you edit the tones used by a studio set, or if the temporary tones of
the studio set were rewritten from an external MIDI device, you’ll need
to save those tones as well.
p. 48
Check the eect settings.
It may be that the total eect (tone eect) and master eect (system
eect) settings were changed.
p. 52
Arpeggio and controller
settings dier between
studio sets
Check the arpeggio and controller settings.
Arpeggio and controller settings are independently saved for each
studio set.
p. 33, p. 39
Problems with external MIDI devices
No sound from an external
MIDI device
Does the FA’s MIDI transmit channel match the connected
device’s MIDI receive channel?
Match the FA’s transmit channel and your connected device’s receive
channel.
p. 90
Exclusive messages are not
received
Could Receive Exclusive be turned “OFF”? Turn Receive Exclusive “ON.” p. 101
Does the transmitting unit’s Device ID number match the
FA’s Device ID number?
Set the Device ID numbers. p. 101
When using DAW software,
operating knobs or other
controls does not aect the
sound
Some DAW software may not “soft-thru” system exclusive
messages.
If you’re using this type of DAW software, and you want to record
system exclusive messages, turn on the Local Switch.
p. 90
When the tone’s bend range
is large (48), the pitch does
not rise to its full extent
when a MIDI pitch bend
message is received
Although a tone’s bend range can be set in a range of
0–48, there are some waves for which the pitch cannot rise
to the full extent of the pitch bend message, causing the
pitch to stop rising at a certain point. We guarantee that
the pitch will rise at least to a pitch bend range setting of
12, but please use caution if you specify a bend range that
is greater than this.
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Problems with the sampling
The sound from an
external input is not stereo
(monaural)
Could the STEREO SW be set to “MONO”? Set the STEREO SW to “STEREO.” p. 79