hello all,
Tonight I successfully re-wired my pedal board. Fortunately I had wired in colour sequence, so it was easy to see that I had swapped two sequences of six wires - an easy re-wire in the end. More problematic was the fact that the first pin connection in every group of eight (4 notes total) did not relay a midi signal. It seems that my initial incorrect wiring "confused" the midi. After trying this a that with no luck, I shut the unit down, disconnected every pedal wire, turned the unit back on, let the midi unit reboot to zero (in a manner of speaking), then shut it off again, reconnected the wires, and rebooted. Somewhere in the back of my cranium I remembered that the unit scans for it's last setting, and boots in that configuration, so removing the wires allowed the unit to boot to it's default setting. Well that was the theory anyway, and viola! it worked!
I'm in business! Now to re-assemble all the circuit boards for the fourth manual (which I took apart 2 years ago) and on to the Stops, which I hope will be a walk in the park compared to the difficulties I've faced so far.
Beauty part is, I don't really know what the heck I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway. And succeeding! Thank you Martin for compelling me to go way outside my envelope.
G'Day
Tonight I successfully re-wired my pedal board. Fortunately I had wired in colour sequence, so it was easy to see that I had swapped two sequences of six wires - an easy re-wire in the end. More problematic was the fact that the first pin connection in every group of eight (4 notes total) did not relay a midi signal. It seems that my initial incorrect wiring "confused" the midi. After trying this a that with no luck, I shut the unit down, disconnected every pedal wire, turned the unit back on, let the midi unit reboot to zero (in a manner of speaking), then shut it off again, reconnected the wires, and rebooted. Somewhere in the back of my cranium I remembered that the unit scans for it's last setting, and boots in that configuration, so removing the wires allowed the unit to boot to it's default setting. Well that was the theory anyway, and viola! it worked!
I'm in business! Now to re-assemble all the circuit boards for the fourth manual (which I took apart 2 years ago) and on to the Stops, which I hope will be a walk in the park compared to the difficulties I've faced so far.
Beauty part is, I don't really know what the heck I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway. And succeeding! Thank you Martin for compelling me to go way outside my envelope.
G'Day