I am a total novice with MIDI, so I apologize if this seems like a stupid question. This may not be strictly a Cakewalk issue - I have no idea. I've searched these forums as well as a ton of others through googling and haven't seen anything regarding this specific problem. Posted solutions to sticking note problems haven't helped. And I should point out it's MIDI through USB. I have used a couple versions of Sonar in the past, and am just now using the new version. I have used this keyboard a LOT with Cakewalk for many years without an issue. With the X2 version I did have this problem and I don't recall whether I got it working or just gave up, since I stopped doing anything musical around then. If it ended up working, which I seem to remember it did, I wish I could remember how! It's been a long time and I'm just now starting to try to scratch the creative itch again.
My issue is using my keyboard and trying to use a VST instrument. When I create the track, it's already receiving a repeating signal, so it hits a note over and over at a regular pace (about 1/2 second) as if I was pressing the key on the keyboard repeatedly. They keyboard itself isn't being played (I'm not touching the keyboard and it doesn't sound on the keyboard - only in the DAW), and I can play around the repeated note in the DAW - even the same note - but that note never stops repeating. If the keyboard isn't connected there's no issue, and I can play the virtual keyboard in a VST without this problem.
Here's where it gets tricky (I think): This happens immediately upon creating the track while the keyboard is connected, before any recording. It repeats the same note when it happens, but the next time it happens it might be a different note that repeats, so it's not strictly one "key" that it happens with. I can stop the MIDI signal in Cakewalk and it will stop, but when I restart it it still happens. I can get it to stop if I change the voice on the keyboard itself, but when I touch any key it starts again. And I did mess around with the buffer speed, as I read elsewhere, to no avail. I don't know that that would even apply to this situation anyway.
The pertinent info:
Windows 10, fully up to date.
Old Casio keyboard (WK-110) with as up-to-date drivers as I can find. They were for Windows 7 and other Casio users said the drivers work fine on 10. Windows seems OK with it, and the previous time I had this problem I was running Windows 7.
Gigabyte motherboard if that matters (GA-970A-UD3). None of the Gigabyte software is installed (there was an issue with their utilities program and USB audio interfaces). Not the world's most amazing computer but perfectly adequate.
Thanks for your attention and any ideas you might have :)
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Brad Allen
I am a total novice with MIDI, so I apologize if this seems like a stupid question. This may not be strictly a Cakewalk issue - I have no idea. I've searched these forums as well as a ton of others through googling and haven't seen anything regarding this specific problem. Posted solutions to sticking note problems haven't helped. And I should point out it's MIDI through USB. I have used a couple versions of Sonar in the past, and am just now using the new version. I have used this keyboard a LOT with Cakewalk for many years without an issue. With the X2 version I did have this problem and I don't recall whether I got it working or just gave up, since I stopped doing anything musical around then. If it ended up working, which I seem to remember it did, I wish I could remember how! It's been a long time and I'm just now starting to try to scratch the creative itch again.
My issue is using my keyboard and trying to use a VST instrument. When I create the track, it's already receiving a repeating signal, so it hits a note over and over at a regular pace (about 1/2 second) as if I was pressing the key on the keyboard repeatedly. They keyboard itself isn't being played (I'm not touching the keyboard and it doesn't sound on the keyboard - only in the DAW), and I can play around the repeated note in the DAW - even the same note - but that note never stops repeating. If the keyboard isn't connected there's no issue, and I can play the virtual keyboard in a VST without this problem.
Here's where it gets tricky (I think): This happens immediately upon creating the track while the keyboard is connected, before any recording. It repeats the same note when it happens, but the next time it happens it might be a different note that repeats, so it's not strictly one "key" that it happens with. I can stop the MIDI signal in Cakewalk and it will stop, but when I restart it it still happens. I can get it to stop if I change the voice on the keyboard itself, but when I touch any key it starts again. And I did mess around with the buffer speed, as I read elsewhere, to no avail. I don't know that that would even apply to this situation anyway.
The pertinent info:
Windows 10, fully up to date.
Old Casio keyboard (WK-110) with as up-to-date drivers as I can find. They were for Windows 7 and other Casio users said the drivers work fine on 10. Windows seems OK with it, and the previous time I had this problem I was running Windows 7.
Gigabyte motherboard if that matters (GA-970A-UD3). None of the Gigabyte software is installed (there was an issue with their utilities program and USB audio interfaces). Not the world's most amazing computer but perfectly adequate.
Thanks for your attention and any ideas you might have :)
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