Hi everyone, new user here after receiving my long-awaited BSP for Christmas yesterday. Sadly I've immediately run into problems trying to hook it up to my synths - a 1976 Minimoog and a 1978 Odyssey.
First off I've installed MCC on my laptop and upgraded the BSP to the latest OS version.
I've then used MCC to set the SEQ1 gate type to S-Trig (as the Mini uses an s-trig input), and used Store To to send this to the BSP. MCC tells me its been saved to the working memory, although there is no indication on the BSP itself that any transfer has happened - I assume this is normal?
I've then connected the Mini to the BSP SEQ1 outputs using an s-trig cable for the gate and cv cable to the osc control. In theory I should then be able play the Mini using the SEQ1 keyboard pads, but no. The pads do not trigger the synth. Similarly if i write a few notes into the sequence and hit play nothing happens from the Mini.
If I trigger the synth with its own keyboard I can hear that the BSP is changing the notes, so the CV is getting through, although annoyingly it is playing several octaves higher than the synth is set to even though my 0V note is set to C-2. Annoying!
So far so frustrating. I then tried connecting to my ARP Odyssey, using the BSP set to v-trig gate as that's what the Oddy uses. Again - nothing from the synth. This time triggering Oddy's own keyboard with the BSP sequence runnign just gave me a high constant pitch - near ultrasonic. No note changes.
So, two analogue synths unable to communicate with the BSP via the cv-gate ports. What is happening? Am I doing something wrong? I've had no problems playing the both synths via a Kenton Pro Solo midi-cv converter in the past, using the very same cables, so I'm at a loss as to what is wrong.
Oh an one extra problem - I get a lot of connection errors when plugging the BSP into the laptop or storing from MCC, either saying device disconnected when it plainly isn't, or that it's in use by another application (again not that I can see), etc. Very flaky.
Any ideas, or has getting the BSP been a huge mistake?
Thanks for any help!