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Midi mystery: NDLR with a Behringer Edge.
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Has anyone used their ? I use the NDLR as a controller hub for 3 - 4 hardware synths and have had no issues connecting them with 5-pin midi. 
However the Edge behaves oddly. It works as intended with other midi gear like keyboards and as a slave for other hardware synths. 
When I connect it to the NDLR for motif or drone duty it will trig once but then not trig again. If I trig the Edge manually with the dedicated trig button or by external cv though it's patchbay it will play the motif as intended until I remove the trig source. Almost as if the NDLR does not send sufficient velocity to it. NDLR CC value is set to 127 and 75% and changing those does not help.
A very specific issue and not very important, but it annoys me that I don't understand why it behaves like this.
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#2
I can't think of any setting on the NDLR which would cause this, but just in case, I would try doing a firmware update on each device if applicable and seeing if that solves the issue.
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#3
you have this Velocity 127 and Vel low 75% fix only when you run the MOTIF in ACCENT = MOT VEL (Button 8). Please check.
Is anything plugged to the MIDI IN of the NDLR? Maybe you can try with the B Edge on another Channel?
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Personally, I suspect the envelopes of the Edge. All parts of the NDLR play in Legato mode, meaning there is very little time between Note Off and Note On. I measured it a long time ago, and it is something in the order of 10s of milliseconds from Note Off to Note On. If the envelope of the Edge is not retriggerable, it may not have time to recover from one note in order to sound the next note. To test this theory, create a Rhythm with Beat 1: 127, Beat 2: Rst, Beat 3: 127, Beat 4: Rst. Then set the RHY-LEN to 4. Play a Motif with this newly created rhythm. If you now hear individually triggered notes coming out (instead of only the first note), then it would appear that the Edge doesn't like Legato.

If this is the case, you could try setting the Edge VCA Release knob all the way to zero. The hope here is that the envelope can complete its cycle with the execution of the Note Off command and be ready to trigger again with the following Note On. That, or perhaps Behringer has some hidden configuration someplace where you can set the envelope as Retriggerable or Non-retriggerable. I don't have an Edge, but I do have other Behringer gear and things are often changeable through wacky button pushes.

Hope you have success with this!
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