u/srubbish

Loving my hichord so far (as is my 9yr old son) but I have two questions-
1 - when using certain settings through the speaker , such as the sine wave, I get some nasty “clicking” at higher volumes (as the setting is itself quite quiet the volume does need to be up). The noise isn’t there through headphones just through the speaker. Anyone else get this?
2 - using the companion app and the “generate sample (a.i.)” - is this just supposed to find an existing sample that matches the description or does it try to create a specific sample based on the description? I tried the church organ example and it seemed to work and it sounded similar to an existing setting (can’t remember which one). Trying a more extravagant description results in a “generating” message the an error message debug displayed on the hichord which then goes to a “creating” message. Is it the app or the hichord (or both) that;s creating the error? I’ll get some more detailed repro steps when I can. I’m using chrome on a m1 MacBook Pro to connect.

Edit:
WRT the clicking here are the sounds most obviously affected and the volume level when the clicking becomes most apparent.

Strings - 70
Poly 106 - 75
Flute- 80
Fm piano - 75 the overall sound (not the clicking) is very quiet even at 100
Clarinet - 80 a bit quiet, not as quiet as the fm piano though.
Wurlitzer- 50
Vox ahh - 28
Humming -42
Sine - 20 but the clicking tone at lower volumes is deeper
Fm wow -65
Robbo - 30

Clicking is typically at the end of the sound. The clicking only really seems apparent when playing through the speaker in the unit.

Hi there. Got my mini 4 today and initially all was fine but now when I connect to GarageBand or Ableton and DAW mode is selected the display on the unit goes blank.
It worked initially for me but after less than an hour it’s gone cranky. If it’s not connected I can switch between daw and plugin. If it’s connected I can see prst2:plugins but pressing the daw button blanks the display.

Edit: solved! I saw several posts on YouTube complaining of a similar problem but with no answers. I stepped back as to what I was doing when it happened. I was in the plugins section of Ableton selecting one of the free drum kits as per the tutorial. This changed the mode of the mini4 from daw to plugins so I guessed it was some comms error between the software and the unit. I read several posts that mentioned weird behaviour resulting from incorrect setup on macOS using Ableton (it seems you need to follow a specific set of options when setting it up). I deleted the midi device in the Marc midi studio app, reconnected and the screen behaved as expected after following their instructions.