Sorry if this has been posted before, I’m in a bit of a hurry and I couldn’t find a similar topic.
I’ve been using Bome products for a few years without issue for a few years. For a new project I’ve bought Bome Network to send MIDI from a MacBook running tracks to two other MacBooks running virtual instruments. For some reason whenever I initially start up the software on both machines it works fine, but after 5 to 10 minutes the MacBook running virtual instruments stops receiving MIDI. Connecting the two systems through Bome Network is no issue, the MIDI messages just stop coming through after a while. Is there something I’m missing? There are no messages saying the connection failed or anything.
A good thing to note is that although I’ve had wonderful experiences working with BomeBoxes, a member of this new project insisted upon using iConnectivity hardware for some of the MIDI distribution on-stage, so these are on the same network as the MacBooks. Could that be muddying the waters?
This is very unusual. Maybe you have a bad network connection or one of your Macs has too much load on it. Are your Macs connecting through USB to ethernet adapers? I’ve found some of these adapters have issues with Macs that they don’t perform well. The should have a REALTEK RTL8153 chip in them to work well. For instances I get pauses when using this adapter but this one works fine.
If it happens again, feel free to send your log file as described in this posting.
It is best that you send it to us as soon after as it happens as possible so we can get an idea what was going on. Maybe even send it from both computers so we can determine what each computer was seeing.
I assume you are running Bome Network 1.6.0. If not, please upgrade.
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Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Both Macs are connected through an Ethernet switch, on the same network as two iConnectivity MioXMs. I don’t think the usb hubs are the issue, i was able to establish a working connection using MacOS’s RTP-MIDI, but this failed to re-establish itself upon reconnection. Or is this chip necessary for using Bome Network?
Yes I am running the latest version. Will try to make a log the next time this happens.