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Suddenly, for no apparent reason, my whole SFP installation has gone monophonic on me. Not matter what I set the polyphony to, I can only ever get one note out of any one synth at one time.

I know it's not my keyboard because:
a.) VST instruments are playing back fine within Cubase and
b.) the B2003 is still polyphonic. This doesn't handle voice allocation in the same way as the other synths and it doesn't actually have a #voices parameter.

It happens with all synths - CW and 3rd party, new and old.

It happens whether I trigger the synths from a external midi signal or a sequencer midi signal.

Any ideas?

I'm asking myslef what's changed since I last played, but I can't really think of anything. I've been trying out new stuff from SpaceF, Wolf and MCCyrano, but not replaced any of the files in app or bin, etc. I have installed Dynatube, but can't imagine that would be the culprit.

If no-one's got any suggestions I'll try taking a back up of my SFP folder and then reinstalling SFP (I'm on v 4.5) from scratch.

Cheers,
Ben

yeah, i'd just do the quick fix. backup your project, device, xtcdevice, preset and dsp files as well as scope.rgy (actually, i wouldn't probably even do that, but it's probably better to be prudent) and then just run the install right over the top of your old install. everything will be overwritten except for the new stuff you have put in(synths, patches, effects, registration files). that should banish any gremlins.

I re-ran the installer, but it's made no difference.

Just to be 100% sure it's not a fault with either the card, the midi in or the keyboard I fired up my old 3.1 installation (same partition on WinXP) and that worked fine.

Unless you've got any more ideas it looks like I'll have to do a completely fresh installation - what a drag. It's not the installation itslef, but the subsequent installation of all 3rd party devices, presets, mod patches, etc which takes so long....

Hmm, I could check if the installation of 4.5 on my test XP partition works OK. If it does, I could copy all dsp files across from that. Or I could just try copying the dsp folder from my last backup across. I'll try one of those steps first.

But any other ideas before I get into that?

Cheers,
Ben

Fixed it.

I tried copying across my App folder from my test xp installation. No difference.

So I booted into my test XP installation, and that was also broken.

That made me think it had to be hardware, not software related, as I've not touched the test installation for months.

I worked out that one of the 'zones' on my keyboard (M-Audio ProKeys88) was transmitting monophonically, even though I'd done a factory reset on the keyboard.
The reason that VST instruments were playing OK is that Cubase is picking up the signal from the keyboards usb midi out, not the midi cable, and seems that this transmits differently. Still don't understand why B2003 was behaving OK, or why SFP 3.1 was also OK, but resetting the zones on the keyboard fixed the problem.

Many thanks to garyb for the suggestion - apologies to Mehdi and Martin for accusing them of uploading monophonic devices, and most of all:
Note to self - don't let baby near the keyboard again!

Ben

note to self....

oh boy - a lot of things can go wrong with 1's & 0's

Have you tried to trigger a synth internally from a sequencer?

Hi MM,
all working fine now - see my earlier post.
Cheers,
Ben

Jaegermeister.