sjoens Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I've noticed in CbB that the MIDI activity monitor doesn't always show up in the Taskbar as expected (enabled in Preferences). When it is there sometimes it fails to show activity. Reporting in case Sonar has the same issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleo Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 I've been using the MIDI Activity Monitor on the taskbar for years with both CbB and with Sonar running with Windows 10 and now Windows 11 and I 've never seen it fail. Not sure what the problem could be; hopefully one of the bakers will respond soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 I'm not using modern Sonar, but the only times I've seen it fail to indicate things is when there is an issue with the MIDI hardware (or drivers) preventing communications. Usually it's that one of the St Bernards has been helpful and pulled the MIDI IF off the shelf with their tail or nose or whatever and unplugged the USB cable.... If all of the MIDI devices are working, and no issues exist with lost data in the MIDI stream, etc., then it shouldn't be that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted June 16 Author Share Posted June 16 Could be a side affect of using a MOTU micro lite. Overall it works fine but this isn't the only issue I've had over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted Saturday at 10:49 PM Share Posted Saturday at 10:49 PM People actually use this? I've never been able to detect MIDI activity, the thing is just too small. Permanent disability. A longstanding feature request of mine is to move the indicator somewhere within the main UI. Maybe at the bottom or somewhere in the transport module. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted yesterday at 03:41 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:41 AM 4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said: People actually use this? I've never been able to detect MIDI activity, the thing is just too small. Permanent disability. A longstanding feature request of mine is to move the indicator somewhere within the main UI. Maybe at the bottom or somewhere in the transport module. Not very often, but I will occasionally check the red virtual led to make sure Windows hasn't put my usb keyboard to sleep (such as after one of those Windows updates that resets my personal power settings for usb devices). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted yesterday at 06:25 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 06:25 AM It's 16pix squared as most tray icons are. Be nice if Windows allowed it to be bigger when deselecting "small" Taskbar icons but tray icons are not included in this so I customized it so it's more visible. I use it to quickly troubleshoot basic midi issues but this becomes an issue when it fails because I can't tell what's causing it to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago 12 hours ago, sjoens said: I customized it so it's more visible. I use it to quickly troubleshoot basic midi issues but this becomes an issue when it fails because I can't tell what's causing it to fail. I would love to find out how to customize it to be more visible. I would prefer it not to then go missing from time to time. Does it still go missing if you back out your customization(s)? I've never been able to detect any change in "LED state" in the icon, not from the start. The "lights" are just too small. My MIDI chain troubleshooting is to look at a MIDI track's meters to see if Sonar is able to take data in, and then if it's not, then I fire up MIDI-Ox. I find MIDI-Ox' port mapping setup screen to be mostly unfathomable, so I use a "brute forcing the puzzle" approach to setting it up. Once it's set up, MIDI-Ox is a powerful tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted 9 hours ago Author Share Posted 9 hours ago (edited) It's an icon file hidden in the TTRES.dll so you need a resource editor to access it and paint app capable of saving to ico format. I found an icon plugin for PSE that works great. 11 hours ago, Starship Krupa said: Does it still go missing if you back out your customization(s)? It went missing periodically before I customized it. Graphical customizing has little to no affect on performance in my experience. Edited 6 hours ago by sjoens 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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