Task: Assign a foot pedal to control the rotary speed

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Honestly, there’s a bit of a dilemma here: Playing back the track once everything is recorded will probably work best using a Studio Set for each track and channel the way I’m envisioning it, but recording new tracks while being able to listen to the existing tracks? No easy solution there. You could playback the existing tracks using a virtual instrument so you can hear what you’ve already recorded and record the new track on top, but that seems like a PITA. AFAIK, there is no easy, built-in solution.

I think I need to do some reconnaissance. TBC…

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So, that is the reason for the creation of this page: if you ever see an acro that you don’t recognize and if I haven’t already implemented a tooltip solution making this page obsolete, please use this page for references:

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After effing around with this for the better part of a week, I was finally able to save a SS without any bullshit. 2 key items:

1. Check the “KBD” checkboxes (see screenshot) for each voice
2. Change “Lock” to “Unlock”

This is from the manual. It kinda helped me figure it out, but I’m not sure I could tell you exactly what I did to “fix” it. But here are the steps I took:

On the FA’s WRITE MENU (after pressing the WRITE button) screen I had 3 options in STUDIO SET play mode:

1. Studio Set (SS)
2. Tone(Part02)
3. Song

First I tried saving the SS, but after going thru the save process, the second instrument (the one that I was trying to save) defaulted to no voice selected. So I selected the same voice again (without making any changes to the preset version of the voice) and tried saving it again. Same result. (I always try to keep the definition of insanity in mind when confronted with a problem like this, but I usually repeat the same steps a few times just to make sure that outcome is repeatable…)

Second, I remembered the last time I had this problem that I kept getting a message that I needed to save something else first before I could save the SS. This time, however, there was no warning like that, but it still wasn’t saving correctly. So, this time, instead of saving the SS, I tried saving it as a Song. Same result: that voice that wouldn’t save, still wasn’t saving.

Third, I tried saving the Tone. Pretty sure that still didn’t work, however, I think I kinda gave up at that point and I went looking for any notes I might have saved on the issue after resolving it the first time. Didn’t find any. (That was when I decided that it was finally time to create my own blog where I could save my notes about resolving issues like this so I wouldn’t have to keep solving them over and over. Hence,  the creation of what you’re reading right now.)

That all happened a few days ago. I just tried saving the SS again a few minutes ago and… this time it worked! Not sure what actually resolved it, but next time if I have this same problem I will repeat these steps and hopefully resolve it much more quickly.

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External Instrument MIDI Playback Issues
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Good news! (where’s that “fingers crossed” emoji when u need it?) It appears as tho I’ve been able to fix the issue. “Fixed” may not actually be the correct term, but it’s resolved for now.

What I’ve Learned: Recording an External Instrument requires additional steps in order to do it successfully.

1. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdUtczw4rI

2. Set up your device as an External Instrument.

3. Set up the device in Audio Setup > Audio Device > Song Setup > Inputs in Options (you should see the input level change as you play setting it up).

4. In External Devices in the Mix section, assign it to an Aux channel and save it as the default.

5. Also, set up your device as an External Keyboard so you can record the MIDI input.

Until I realized that Step 5 was also necessary, I couldn’t get MIDI data to show up to record to an instrument track after uninstalling and reinstalling the FA-08. I’m reasonably sure that it wasn’t configured how it is now when I had the issues I described in this post initially. After making these changes, I was able to create a new song with a basic Impact drum track and record two or three minutes uninterrupted, play it back successfully without any glitches, record a separate track on top of the initial track and then play them both back simultaneously perfectly. I haven’t tested the new configuration on the tracks I’ve already recorded yet, but I can always re-record them if they can’t be salvaged now that I have something that works.

Again, I want to thank those of you who posted trying to help me troubleshoot the problem. One thing that I’ve learned about resolving issues in life is by galvanizing your thoughts and summarizing the steps you’ve taken in order to present it to someone else for help/suggestions, you often gain insight to the problem that you might not have had otherwise.

Thanks again!

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