posted 20 January 2005 23:44            

I get occassional glitches: particularly in the Laura sound. Kyma refuses to see the tablet anymore until I stop the program and relaunch. I have the very latest drivers.

Also, why are the buttons on the tablet not implemented?!? Particularly the 'slider' - it would make an ideal ribbon controller thingy!

Thanks,

posted 21 January 2005 12:47            

I have the eraser doing keyboard and the tip doing controller...

posted 30 January 2005 14:43            

I downloaded the 6.13 update but the problem with
the tablet continues.

I have tested many things, but I don't find a pattern.
I open the "Ahh Reverb KBD" and play with the pen just
in the low edge of the active area of the tablet.
One time after 18 minutes playing the sound hangs out,
other after 15 minutes.

One time I minimized the VCS and I played 50 minutes
whitout problems. I stopped the sound without crash.

The next time that I have done the same thing, minimizing
the VCS, I play 32 minutes, suddenly when I'm in the right edge
the pen resizes the window of Kyma, and all the
windows that I have minimized they open. Just two minutes
after the sound hangs.

And today, with the VCS minimized, the sound hangs after
20 minutes... frustrating...

I changed the Preferences/Miscellaneous of graphics and scrolling
but the problem continues...

Well, If you want some help for testing I can help. You can
send me the directions for testing.

On the positive side, after all this testing with the fantastic
Sound "Ahh Reverb KBD", I composed a song with some indian
flavour, I love the possibilities of microtonality...
To me the tablet It's more than a controller, it's an
instrument, like a violin or a piano.
Now I'm thinking to buy another pen and starting ambidexter
exercises...

posted 31 January 2005 14:24            

"One time after 18 minutes playing the sound hangs out,
other after 15 minutes." Jesus, I've been trying to replicate this but so far no luck. Have you ever tried this Sound *without* the tablet control? For example, does it go into space if you just leave it alone for 20 minutes? Or is it definitely correlated with playing off the low end of the tablet?

posted 02 February 2005 06:29            

first thing, yesterday has been a wonderful day.

The "Ahh Reverb KBD" Sound it's a hit in my band.
Now we are composing a "modern" version of a middle ages song
from spanish music, when I play this Sound the song becomes
magical and all the people "is left with the mouth open"
(is correct this expression?)
What will happen when I have two pens.... ??
Thank you very much for this Sound !

On the other hand (not hang... , if I left the Sound alone
one hour or more (up to three hours) the Sound it's OK.
The problem appear only playing with the tablet, not only in the
low end.
For example, with the "analog KBD w/PenTiltRadius & Angle" Sound when playing
a downscale exercise from rigth to left, sometimes the sound hang out when
I play the last note... just in the left side of the active area.

Today I discovered various things:
(In my Preferences wacom tablet is always in Sound mode).

A1. I open Kyma
A2. I select a Sound in the Sound Browser (i.e. "Ahh Reverb KBD")
A3. I play the Sound with the play button of the Sound Browser
A4. When I approximate the pen to the tablet the cursor arrow moves
a few centimeters!

This only occur the first time that I open Kyma and play the Sound.
If I stop the Sound and replay this doesn't happen, the cursor arrow
don't moves with the pen.

Now the "B" thing:
B1. When approximating the pen to the tablet in the upper end,
the pen controls the cursor arrow, I can move the cursor arrow
in the upper edge of the Kyma window with the pen.
B2. If I go to the upper end of the table with the pen playing, this
doesn't happen.

posted 02 February 2005 10:18            

I think I see why this might be happening. The Ah Reverb KBD Sound has no envelope on it; the envelope comes entirely from the pressure changes on the tablet. So you could either alter your playing style to always end the phrase by slowly fading out the pressure on the tablet. OR, you could add an AR or ADSR envelope on the oscillator in that Sound so that when you lift the pen, the oscillator amplitude decays away.

Still working on the other issues you observed. We were able to replicate some of the window-moving effects under XP (OS X does not seem to have this problem). More news soon!

posted 14 February 2007 17:47            

The next time you get this problem, please try the following things:

1. See if putting the Wacom mouse on the tablet, using it click on a few things, and then taking it off causes the pen to resume working.

posted 14 February 2007 19:30            

I don't have to be using the pen very long before it stops working.

I tried using the tablet mouse as you suggested but it did not revive the pen.

Also, the buttons are set to control the Sound and are 'disabled' in the Wacom Tablet Properties as prescribed by the installation .pdf.

I just enabled the 1st button to switch to Mouse mode. After losing the pen function, I pressed the button and the pen switched to Mouse mode. Then I reopened a Sound and had pen control of the Sound again!

This is not repeatable, though.

posted 15 February 2007 10:37            

Please try this to see if the frequency of occurrence of the problem changes.