[A6] midi diagnosis

[Robert van der Kamp]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:47, vespine at netspace.net.au 
wrote:
> Wow, what a relief about that midi jack. Sorry about the
> noob attack but I've noticed something else which has got
> me worried again. I've been reading the compiled tips &
> tricks which are great and I discovered the LED
> diagnostic which makes all the lights go on when you hit
> soft button 1 after you power up holding soft button 2.
> In this mode you hit soft button 2 again to do midi
> diagnostic, which I did and it replied "midi test failed"
> :-( Bugger! I've enabled the NRPN knob sending and stuff,
> and I've been recording midi, ribbon, mod wheels in
> cubase and playing them back seemingly ok, I haven't
> noticed a problem.. I haven't managed to find anything
> about the tests and I'm a bit worried that it might be
> something to do with sysex or something else that I
> haven't tried yet. My unit shipped with OS 1.40.12 btw.
> Are you supposed to be transmitting midi data to the Andy
> during the test or something? Anyone have any more info
> on what the midi test does and how to dig deeper and
> trouble shoot this?

Never tried it, but my guess is that the midi test is a 
loopback test, where a midi cable must be connected from 
the andro's midi out jack to its midi in jack. But that's 
really just my guess.

- Robert