Blank screen and no sound - again..

I've used the CAT Connection for a couple of years, never had one issue.
AXE II and MFC first edition.
 
edo said:
I never use stereo cabs, I generally use 2 mono cabs with different irs.. Not saying your theory is incorrect, but still, lockup might have to do with excessive cpu overload maybe?? I do have a few patches that go up to 91% or so..
Btw, a couple weeks ago I've replaced the cat5 cable with a midi cable and I had no problem until last gig 2 days ago, when the blank screen / no sound happened again (don't know if that's the cause or it's a choincidence, but it happened when i went up from song 62 to song 1 as opposed to down from 62 to 1)
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Interesting. Thanks for responding!!
 
edo said:
I never use stereo cabs, I generally use 2 mono cabs with different irs.. Not saying your theory is incorrect, but still, lockup might have to do with excessive cpu overload maybe?? I do have a few patches that go up to 91% or so..
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Good job on trying to isolate the issue, does the freezing happen on a particular preset or any of the 90%+ presets? If so, maybe try pulling your Compressor blocks from those to save some CPU.

In the past few gigs with the AFX II MI and MFC-101 M2, I have had one of these issues. My own personal findings was from the scene transitions and X/Y parameters boosted the CPU to about 91% and it flipped out. Once recreating that same exact preset and removing the COMP block, all was well and I have not had an issue since.

Hope you find out the issue mate!
 
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Thanks for the advice, however I don't use the comp block that much (I only use it in 2 or 3 presets out of the 63 presets I'm currently using). Most of my presets use 2 amp / cab blocks, 2 delay blocks, 2 drive blocks, 1 reverb block and one multidelay block, and that's about it.
The blank screen issue happens randomly, I am not sure it has to do with higher cpu patches as most of my presets use 83-88%, and only a couple (literally 2 or 3) use 89-91
 
This happened to me a few weeks ago in the middle of a gig. Suddenly no sound and blank screen. My AxeFX 2 and MFC has been a work horse for years with never a problem. I wired a pass-thru ethercon adapter to my pedal board and back of my rack and had a ruggedized cable made that gets stepped on all night long. I check my patches and the highest CPU usage is 89%.

I play over 100 shows a year and reliability is paramount so I bought an FM3 and FC6 (OMG9). Sadly, I can’t get the same sound quality from the FM3. I can’t risk using the Axe2 without knowing for sure what caused the outage and the FM3 isn’t really cutting it.

I’ll probably try ordering another cable and bring the FM3 as a backup unless someone has a better idea 😞
 
axme said:
This happened to me a few weeks ago in the middle of a gig. Suddenly no sound and blank screen. My AxeFX 2 and MFC has been a work horse for years with never a problem. I wired a pass-thru ethercon adapter to my pedal board and back of my rack and had a ruggedized cable made that gets stepped on all night long. I check my patches and the highest CPU usage is 89%.

I play over 100 shows a year and reliability is paramount so I bought an FM3 and FC6 (OMG9). Sadly, I can’t get the same sound quality from the FM3. I can’t risk using the Axe2 without knowing for sure what caused the outage and the FM3 isn’t really cutting it.

I’ll probably try ordering another cable and bring the FM3 as a backup unless someone has a better idea 😞
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Wow. I'm stunned that you can't get a good tone out of the FM-3. Each generation of Fractal gear has been progressively easier to dial in.

Try starting a new thread. Piggybacking on a thread that's been dead for six years isn't going to get you many views. :)
 
Unfortunately, this is the only thread I could find that describes the issue I experienced. It seems there was never a solid resolution or fix
 
axme said:
Unfortunately, this is the only thread I could find that describes the issue I experienced. It seems there was never a solid resolution or fix
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A couple of thoughts:

1) Try starting a new thread. More people will see your post.

2) Try contacting Fractal support.
 
axme said:
This happened to me a few weeks ago in the middle of a gig. Suddenly no sound and blank screen. My AxeFX 2 and MFC has been a work horse for years with never a problem. I wired a pass-thru ethercon adapter to my pedal board and back of my rack and had a ruggedized cable made that gets stepped on all night long. I check my patches and the highest CPU usage is 89%.

I play over 100 shows a year and reliability is paramount so I bought an FM3 and FC6 (OMG9). Sadly, I can’t get the same sound quality from the FM3. I can’t risk using the Axe2 without knowing for sure what caused the outage and the FM3 isn’t really cutting it.

I’ll probably try ordering another cable and bring the FM3 as a backup unless someone has a better idea 😞
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Computers crash. We are in an exceptionally high period of sunspot activity right now which makes crashing more common. My Macbook Pro crashed last night.

If you are in a high-reliability situation then you should employ a redundant backup with switching capability. All pro touring acts use this technique.
 
Coronal Mass Ejections are pretty terrifying. Yay, another possibly civilization ending scenario to worry about...
 
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