by HDB » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:30 am
More info is needed.
What do you have the MIDI cable connected from, or, to the Lexicon?
Is it going to an outboard device, like a keyboard or MIDI sound module?
What are you trying to do with the MIDI cable? Do you have it connected to a device IN the computer? If so, you may be possibly causing a loopback that is locking things up.
The MIDI I/O on the Lexicon should work fine through the USB, without MIDI cables...to and from the computer. The MIDI interface in the Lexicon, I believe, is more a convenience for connecting outboard gear.
Even if that IS what you are doing, if you have the inputs and outputs of, say, a keyboard connected, you may be causing a loop. You would need to either turn off MIDI echo in Sonar, or find a similar setting in your outboard gear that will keep it from looping through it.
If you have no outboard gear connected, I suspect you may not need a MIDI cable. You may just have to set up tracks in Sonar to play virtual instruments through the Lexicon, or General MIDI sounds through, perhaps, your computer's MIDI soundcard. (I don't think the Lexicon has a MIDI soundset, but I could be wrong). So, it's possible you have the Lexicon connected, and you may think you need to connect it to a MIDI I/O on your existing soundcard. If that's the case, there is no need to do that.
Outline your MIDI cable signal paths, and maybe we can take a better stab at figuring out what it's doing. This is just something common that I suspect it MAY be doing.
HDB