Monotron
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Douglas, Wyoming

Don't worry, I searched before making this topic first, for hours. I recently received my arduinoboy from Xiwi Electronics, pre-built because I'm lazy. Anyways, I hooked it up, and hooked up my midi to usb cable and started it up. The device seems to work fine, as does the cable, but I can't send midi to the gameboy and the gameboy won't sync to FL studio. I set the port to 1, and tried channels 1-4 and nothing. Is it something I'm doing wrong? Is the cable not compatible? If so what cable would be? Help, please before I go insane.

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/HDE-Cable-Convert … s=midi+usb The cable I'm using

Last edited by Monotron (Apr 30, 2014 2:53 am)

dotmicro
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Sydney, AU

What are you sending to the Gameboy? MIDI clock, notes or CC? and is it for LSDJ or mGB?

Not too familiar with FL studio but if you want to configure MIDI SYNC output in ableton you just need to enable MIDI out clock sync in the preferences options.

May also want to try the testing with LSDJ in master mode. If you connect the arduinoboy up and set to MASTER mode on the arduinoboy and in LSDJ, you should get the LED's blinking regardless of whats connected to the MIDI din connectors. At least then you can see if the connection between the GB and arduinoboy is working.

Hope some of my ramblings help smile

Monotron
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Douglas, Wyoming

Notes, and mGB. And I tried Ableton as well. I tried master mode as well as midi and slave. When I put it in master the LED's respond to the beat as normal, but I can't seem to get it to send to the PC when I try to map the midi in Fl or ableton.

uXe
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Melbourne, Australia

...some cheap cables aren't up to spec:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/13398 … rduinoboy/

Monotron
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Douglas, Wyoming
uXe wrote:

...some cheap cables aren't up to spec:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/13398 … rduinoboy/

I saw this post already (post purchase mind you) and it seems the people who purchased this cable seem to have no problems or can at least send midi clock to and from. I haven't gotten a single response sync or actually notes so I'm not sure if it is the cable. If it is I can save up and buy a better one but I don't want to resort to that unless I know for sure it's the cable

Monotron
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Douglas, Wyoming

Well I got it worked out, turns out it has to be set to channel 115 or above or the midi will already be in use. who knew

Last edited by Monotron (May 1, 2014 1:36 am)