Hi everyone,
I am experiencing some issues with the MIDI connection via USB cable of my Arturia Beatstep Pro with my Organelle.
Basically, I should have followed precisely the instructions for the MIDI Setup on the Organelle, say:
Connect the Arturia via USB to Organelle
Turn on the Arturia
Select ‘Arturia Beatstep pro’ as ‘Device’ in the midi Setup of the Organelle;
Check the midi IN/OUT settings (just to be sure all is fine);
Save & reload the patch
However the Organelle seems is not receiveing any MIDI message (neither from the control mode nor the sequencers nor drum sequencer) and I do not understand why… Indeed the Arturia Beatstep Pro works perfectly fine on Ableton.
Can anyone help me?
Just for additional info, the MIDI settings are currently the following:
Organelle:
Midi In: Enabled
Midi In Ch.: Omni
Midi Out: Enabled
Midi Out Ch.: 1
From looking at other posts other users have gotten the BSP and Organelle synced up. There’s nothing out of the ordinary with your setup.
Have you checked this thread? (please ignore anything about ‘patchloaded.sh’ - this is not needed)
A simple thing to try is to set the Organelle’s MIDI Input channel to a specific channel instead of ‘Omni’…so, say, MIDI CH 2 to receive the BSP’s Seq1.
only quasi-related, but I recently had problems with the Keystep Pro communicating with my Organelle V1 via usb midi… I was unable to solve the problem and ultimately traded up to an Organelle M to resolve the issues by utilizing the TRS midi instead. I never had problems with the original Keystep and the Organelle V1, but maybe the way usb midi is implemented on the BSP and the KSP is similar in how it disagrees with the organelle os.
Hi, I need to check better, but it seems very likely there are connectivity issues between the organelle M and the BSP as you said. That would be a pity…
Hi,
some bad new. I tried also with MIDI cables but the issue is still there. I also set the organelle to specific midi input channels (say, 1 or 2) but nothing changes, in that the Organelle M is not receiving any message from the BSP.
I had read the forum on
but it seems to me that I correctly set up the midi settings. So I do not understand the problem…
Hi all,
I have just solved the issue! Indeed, it seems that the problem arises only when using the patches on my USB pen. Insetad, when using the standard patches on SD card all works fine with the USB-Midi connection between Organelle and BSP.
Not clear why, but for now it is already a huge progress lol
Hi all,
same problem here, but with a Novation SL49 MK3 connected via USB sending MIDI to Ch1. Organelle set to receive on Omni and it does recognise the MIDI device, but no message seems to be received by the from the Novation.
I tried two different cables on both ports. Also various combinations of MIDI In and Out Channels on both devices. I even re-flashed OS v4 onto the SD card in case some .pd file was corrupted.
Now running out of ideas…
It must be noted that 1. plugging a Keystep to the Organelle does work. 2. the Novation does transmit the right messages through the right MIDI Channels when plugged USB to my Mac.
Any help much appreciated
You might want to ask Novation if the SLMK3’s USB-MIDI is designed to work with Linux devices like the Organelle. Sometimes they only support Mac/Windows. I checked the manual for the SL MKIII but it didn’t mention anything about it. In the meantime you could try the MIDI DIN ports.
Thanks chrisk, it turns out its exactly that. No Linux support for any Novation product :-/
Pretty sure Midi Din works but don’t have a spare interface for it…unless there’s a cheaper/simpler solution to convert Din into Usb? Will look into it but any suggestion is always welcomed.
Hi,
I have been searching te forum for people with the same issue as mine. It looks like yours is kinda close…I am using the patches on the SD card, but can’t get the USB MIDI between Organelle and BSP to work.
Have you ever got your issue with the USB pen solved?
Thanks
-Fred
Hello,
I did not use the BSP with organelle since a very long time… I solved the issue on September '20 using the SD card rather than USB (as I said above in this thread). Also, the other only thing I remember is that one day I used the “Additive synth” patch and pressed play on the BSP and then the organelle recognized the BSP and started playing the first recorded sequence together with the sequencer… From that moment I have been able to use the organelle with the BSP smoothly, but then I needed to solve another issue to disconnect the “Play” button from the AUX button (to avoid sequences playing every time…). See here a patch solution for this too.
You can try to do what I did, but I am not sure if this will solve your problem. I hope so.
Hi,
I recently purchased a BeatStep Pro and I had the same kind of problem connecting it to my Organelle M via USB. But I was able to get it to work after some messing around. Here is what I have learned; hopefully this helps others.
Background:
I have an Arturia KeyStep (non-pro) and I have never had any trouble with it using it as a USB-MIDI keyboard controller with the Organelle M, so I was surprised when my BSP didn’t work right away.
Investigation:
With the BSP connected, I ran amidi -l and also arecordmidi -l on the Organelle terminal command line, and noticed that the BSP is actually registered as two MIDI devices.
I used arecordmidi to record inputs from each of the two input ports for the BSP, and noticed that data was only produced on port 20:0 (the first BSP device listed), not port 20:1 (the second BSP device listed).
Note however that the MIDI settings screen on the Organelle M appears to only show one device (Arturia BeatStep Pro)
So after playing around I found the following procedure that repeatedly gets the BSP to connect and play. The trick is to make sure that the MIDI settings screen selects the right device, even though it doesn’t list it visually:
Plug in the BSP to the Organelle M.
Start up the Organelle M.
Go to Settings → MIDI Setup
Set:
MIDI In : Enabled
MIDI In Ch.: Omni
Device:
Ok when selecting the device, here is the trick. Press the encoder on the Device line. You will get a device list with Arturia BeatStep Pro (seemingly listed just once). Then you have to rotate the encoder counter-clockwise, at least one click. It should still say Arturia BeatStep Pro. Then press the encoder again to go back.
Then select Save and click the Encoder.
The load (or reload) a patch. The patch (assuming it is programmed to respond to midi notes) should respond to keypresses on the BSP.
Hypothesis:
The MIDI settings screen doesn’t have enough horizontal space to show whether you have selected Arturia BeatStep Pro 0 or Arturia BeatStep Pro 1 so it is easy to select the wrong one (In my experience you have to select #0).
Apology:
Sorry this is a bit long-winded by hopefully it helps. You can get some more feedback from the Organelle about what is selected if you are connected via VNC and run the command python midi_setup.py in the scripts folder. That way it actually prints whether you have selected #0 or #1 to the console.
Hello,
I have now recently sold the BSP, but I had the chance to inspect again the problem.
It seems that if you make sure the BSP is connected via USB (and recognized properly by the Organelle on its display in the midi section) and ALSO via standard midi cable, then the BSP is able to work with the Organelle. Of course make sure that midi port for input/output are set coherently. Maybe this is just a hack, but it works…