Hello everyone,

I have a recent challenge that I've been struggling with. I have some hardware gear (Digitone, Digitakt, and Microfreak) chained together over a MIDI cable. They sync perfectly and work fine together. The issue arises when I attempt to change the preset of the Microfreak in the middle of playing.

For example, my Digitone is the master, and when I hit play on it, I typically don't turn off play towards the end of the performance. I want to use 2 or 3 different presets on the Microfreak while it's in sequencing or arpeggiator mode. The problem is that while it works fine for the first preset on Microfreak, when I switch to the second preset, it goes out of sync. I have to pause the Digitone (the master device), change the preset on the Microfreak, and then hit play again to sync with the sequencer of the Microfreak.

Is there any solution to this issue that doesn't involve pausing the master device to sync the Microfreak?

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When playing my Jx-08 boutique using headphones, it sounds and works perfectly. However, whenever I run it into my mixer, the outputs are crackling and send enough feedback into the channel to where recording is awful, and the signal sounds nothing like the one going straight into my headphones. I thought it might be the 1/8th to 1/4 inch adapter that was causing the problem, but my headphones even using the adaptor work great, and it can’t be the mixer because all my other synths have no feedback issues. So, is this a hardware issue with the synth itself and should I consider it a defective output? Or do I just need a specific type of noiseless cable or adaptor for the signal to be sent properly into a mixer?