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wallness · Junior Jammer Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 3

Hi, I'm a new user of Jamstix (X9-9) and I'm wondering if it works correctly with energyxt(SA, 1.4 beta 27-feb)?

I can't seem to get any signature other than 4/4 in eXT, whilst I can get Jamstix to respond to signature in Tracktion/FL Studio. Could any experienced eXT users here share some tricks with me?

*It doesn't seem to matter whether I use signature envelope or not. Jamstix doesn't respond to sequencer comp's own main signature either...

**BTW, I'm referring to using jamstix in the sequencer comp, as there's no other comp can adjust the the time signature settings.

chrishurley · Junior Jammer Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 8

I've been fiddling with Energy-XT a bit and since Jamstix is the foundation of how I work now...

I can attach jamstix outside the sequencer somewhere between the master in and out and it will play when I press the master Play, but the sequencer doesn't play in this configuration.

I can drop it on the sequencer which creates some kind of an output from the sequencer that doesn't show up on the modular screen for wiring. That works, but I miss being able to draw the wires around

I thought I had it working attached between the sequencer and the master out, but I can't seem to get it going again, so perhaps I was mistaken.

Anyone using JS and ext?

JoPiano · Junior Jammer Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 8

I purchased Jamstix and was really exited about it at first. But the longer I experiment with it, the more disapointed I get. Jamstix is a nice tool for mainstream work. But two steps beside it gets confused.

My problems:
In EXT it doesn't detect any time signatures.
In Logic 5.51 it only detects one and no changes.
These are the two hosts I work with.

My songs however contain often signature changes such as a half bar more before the bridge and so on. So Jamstix gets useless for me.

Could anybody help me?

JoPiano

P.S. I will post the same in the logic column.

Klemperer · Junior Jammer Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 16

Hi there,

I am not a long-time Jamstix-user, but after some questions how to setup Jamstix for a free jam in EnergyXT I thought I'd write this down.

JAM WITH MIDI in EXT:

Setting up Jamstix in the sequencer of EXT is easy. Take any vst-instrument you have. You can use some prerecorded stuff, or, what I did, something you just start to create.

1. Load the VSTit into the Sequencer of EnergyXT, route it to master out 1 in your XT-mixer.

2. Load Jamstix in a second midi-track.

3. Route the first of Jamstix outputs to master out 2. You have more outs, but about this others might tell me more than I could tell them right now:-). Route all you want to diff outs.

4. Open Jamstix. Put it to FREE JAM-mode. Check in the screen right below that jam with MIDI, not Audio, is on. The knob which you can turn clockwise there decides about the velocity you can use. I play a chord as hard as I want with my VSTi, and look if the slider to the left of the knob gets just to green 100% with it.

5. go to your VSTi, hit the PLAY button in EnergyXT, and play along. You should have Jamstix open and see this slider moving, while you play, in the red low area if you play very silent, in the very right-green when loud.
The yellow light in the right-bottom corner lights up.

I'll post again about using Jamstix in the main-window of EnergyXT. As EXT is modular, you can combine crazy things in the main window, and of course use Jamstix in there too.

Again, this works fine here, but i case I can't edit my post here I'll post a corrected version if this is not working for other energyXT-users...

flippya2k · Junior Jammer Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

politcat · Jamologist Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 133

when i load dr-fusion2 into jamstix i get a nasty constant noise which forces me to close eXT. fusion is free if anyone cares to try this. help!

you can find it here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1771.html

Klemperer · Junior Jammer Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 16

madmax · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

Hello,

anybody tried JS in XT2 ? i had bad luck, jamstix did not receive any start-stop signals.
added JS to the sequencer and it received midi signals but js did not start.
can anybody help?

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

eXT2 is still in beta and many plugins do not work with it. Hopefully future eXT2 betas will remedy this situation.
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Mekanik Zain · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

Hello Ralph !

I'm very disapointed again ! JS don't work with eXT2 even in the latest version (06/01/2007)... May be do you take contact with Jorgen Aase for remedy to this trouble ... I'm thinking that is a small bug between JS and eXT2 ... I hope to be working cool with eXT2 and JS 2.0 in a near future !

Cheers ...

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

The problem is known and was posted on the eXT2 forum. It is clear that this is a eXT2 issue and I'm sure Jorgen will fix it when he gets around to it.
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w00t · Junior Jammer Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

hi im new to jamstix (just bought V2 and snooping around) Wink

but i am very active in the eXT forums and will post back what i find with eXT2. this issue is known and is fixed in the next beta according to energy-xt.com

will report more here in the future , and excited to get started with the jamstix Smile

Phil Fee · Jamologist Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 105

Using the current beta version of EXT2 (24 nov) I find that JS2 will not play (It won't follow the sequencer transport). Seems like the new beta did not fix this.

swayzak · Junior Jammer Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 19

I've just tried JS 2.5.2 with the latest XT2 - no start/stop response with XT2 transport.

XT 1.41 seems to respond OK though ...