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== Hanging Notes ==
 
 
 
The MIDI protocol is an amazing survivor in the world of computers.  Though to be fair, its contemporaries are the CD, Microsoft Word and the Apple Lisa.
 
The MIDI protocol is an amazing survivor in the world of computers.  Though to be fair, its contemporaries are the CD, Microsoft Word and the Apple Lisa.
  
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This is the time for a Midi Panic message - stop everything you are doing.
 
This is the time for a Midi Panic message - stop everything you are doing.
  
== How to stop them ==
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== How to stop hanging notes ==
  
 
To make a keyboard go silent, unplug the USB cable from the Raspberry Pi, allow Box Of Stops a moment to detect this (10 seconds is plenty), and plug it back it.
 
To make a keyboard go silent, unplug the USB cable from the Raspberry Pi, allow Box Of Stops a moment to detect this (10 seconds is plenty), and plug it back it.
  
Whenever Box Of Stops detects a new device, the first thing it does is send a Midi Panic message to it.  For anything to work with Midi, the controller (Box Of Stops) and the synthesizer (or keyboard) need to agree over which notes are playing.  Box Of Stops is just making sure that both ends agree on that being no notes at the start.
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Whenever Box Of Stops detects a new device, the first thing it does is send a Midi Panic, or Stop All Notes, message to it.  For anything to work with Midi, the controller (Box Of Stops) and the synthesizer (or keyboard) need to agree over which notes are playing.  Box Of Stops is just making sure of this, by requesting no notes at the start.

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How to stop hanging notes

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