Noise while recording MIDI

[Hanan Cohen]

Hi,

When recording a MIDI track I get short notes that are noise. I don't know where they come from.

I am running Windows 11. I restarted my computer so and only opened Cakewalk.

I have the latest version of Cakewalk. It's a clean project. The instrument is SL-Electric-Piano by Cakewalk.

I am attaching a screenshot and a sound file so you can see and hear. You can see the noise in the middle

Any help towards troubleshooting the problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Hanan

[Hanan Cohen]

I found the problem. I ran a MIDI-OX and saw that my keyboard is sending garbage from this key.

[David Baay]

I was just in the process of writing the following when you posted:

My guess would be that your keyboard controller has a physical problem that's causing spurious Note events to be generated on that one key, possibly due to the slight vibraiton of the keybed when you release other keys.

Does it happen when playing other ranges of the keyboard?

[Hanan Cohen]

Thanks. It does that even when I don't play. See a screenshot of the log. It's an old keyboard I bought second hand. Will need to find a way to fix it.

Edited 4 hours ago by Hanan Cohen

[David Baay]

If you can't actually fix the bad switch or get a replacement,  you may be able to swap a strip of membrane switches with a good one from a less often used upper or lower octave, and cut out the bad switch so it doesn't generate events at the new location.