I recently switched my HW configuration to a dedicated mac, and am experimenting with the best way to have things working: for now the best for me seems to be having the power button set as sleep / wake (so the computer is always asleep, but can be woken easily, and can be put back to sleep also easily) and HW always running
This works well for the keyboards, but I am hitting an issue with the launchpads where if the computer is off for a while, they will 'hang' and seemingly not send anything to HW in terms of registration, as well as not receive anything from HW either (they turn back on with the same stops as they were when they turned off, but no further changes to those are possible), even doing a start/stop of midi/usb in HW does not seem to help, although I *think* (have to do more testing) that stopping the audio/midi before putting the computer to sleep and starting it after, might help, I am testing it right now actually
Once 'hung' only unplugging and replugging them to the computer fixes things, it does not matter if they are plugged in directly, or via a hub, or via an unpowered hub with the power left on while the computer is asleep.
For people that sleep their computers with launchpads attached, what is your experience? anything specific you do? if stopping audio/midi works, do you have an applescript to do that to avoid using the menu to do it? what is your experience?
This works well for the keyboards, but I am hitting an issue with the launchpads where if the computer is off for a while, they will 'hang' and seemingly not send anything to HW in terms of registration, as well as not receive anything from HW either (they turn back on with the same stops as they were when they turned off, but no further changes to those are possible), even doing a start/stop of midi/usb in HW does not seem to help, although I *think* (have to do more testing) that stopping the audio/midi before putting the computer to sleep and starting it after, might help, I am testing it right now actually
Once 'hung' only unplugging and replugging them to the computer fixes things, it does not matter if they are plugged in directly, or via a hub, or via an unpowered hub with the power left on while the computer is asleep.
For people that sleep their computers with launchpads attached, what is your experience? anything specific you do? if stopping audio/midi works, do you have an applescript to do that to avoid using the menu to do it? what is your experience?