Gate issues on drone

[Jesse Johannesen]

That's really frustrating, I'm sorry. I can't get the drone part to do anything wrong on my end by changing any of the variables. I had a lot of buggy MIDI behavior with my MPC Live trying to get it to work with different devices as well. I wonder if this might be a similar situation. There are 2 things I would try, first slow down the tempo to a crawl, and see if that has any effect, second is while playing slow, try recording the Drone part to a midi track and see what the note data that gets saved looks like. that may be quite telling as to how it's being interpreted, and may shine light on what is actually the issue we need to fix.

I would also try reaching out to AKAI for support on this issue as well, as they may be in a better position to provide helpful advice than I am. If you have access to a PC you can download the free software MIDIox, which will allow you to monitor MIDI data real time, and you can see the note on/off messages sent and confirm they're all occurring etc.

Is there another MIDI device you can try and use with the MPC One to try and sequence a similar pattern? A keystep or something? It would be good to see if one does work and the other doesn't. If you can record the MIDI in from that as well so you can compare the notes that are saved.

Let me know if any of this turns up something interesting.
Jesse