Digi 003 Having trouble making connections / setting levels

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:23 am

If the noise is really pervasive it could be a problem with your specific XV-88. Maybe you should check out another one to see if it has the same problem.

I bought a Korg synth many years ago that had, in my opinion, a very bad white noise type of sound. I was told that all synths have background noise - I knew that and accepted it - but this Korg seemed particularly bad. I brought it back to the music store and plugged it in side-by-side with the floor/demo unit and it was indeed just my keyboard.

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:34 pm

Yeah. It has a ground lift switch. I even tried using my Mogami XLR cable as an output and that didn't work.

I do have the headphones turned up high.

Am I just worrying over nothing?

I see the hum in the waveform in protools but I have to zoom in close.

Is it possible to record a synth and hear it just totally clean? Even if you have the monitor cranked up all the way?

That's not how I plan to monitor it, but I was just trying to get a clean sound and get rid of what I could.

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:10 pm

I should also say, I've tried plugging into the XV-88's Phones & Line out jack and got the same result.

But the line out sounds totally lifeless compared to the phones jack for some reason. So I stick with plugging it into the phone.s

Also - thank you so much for being so helpful. I really appreciate it.

This topic sponsored by: