BrentEvans wrote:Ok, I'll try this one here too.
Last time I took all three motormixes out I was getting FIFO errors, which leads me to think I might not have enough MIDI bandwidth. Take one of them out and the errors go away.
Anyone seen this before? If you're using three motormixes successfully, what MIDI adapter are you using?
At one time I was writing software to try and get 4 Mackie MCUs to work with SAC. I was largely successful getting 2 units to work but when I tried to expand it to 3 SAC started flipping out. Granted, I was burning a lot of MIDI bandwidth to fake SAC into thinking it was dealing with a single MCU, but ultimately it was SAC that failed, not the MIDI interface.
Behringer works (barely) with four because the bandwidth requirements are so much lower (no sending digital scribble strip info really helps).
When I saw how badly SAC worked with my MIDI code, that was when the Kool-aid evaporated for me and I realized that Bob was right -- if you can't use SAC the way *he* intended, you should consider getting something else. Sadly, I don't see the ROI for my business in getting something else at this point, so I've stuck to using SAC the way Bob intended (usually with *no* control surface at all). Painful, but it makes more financial sense than going and buying a different console.
FWIW, I think I'd rather be using SAC in my theater management gig than the LS-9. Scenes in SAC are quite a bit better...
Cheers,
Randy Hyde