Firstly, yes I love my AXE and MFC. The flexibility and sounds are amazing.
These items cost some serious money though so I have expectations about reliability and performance.
My AXE MK 1 is a number of years old. I recently bought a used MFC MK3 which was shown by the previous owner to be working perfectly via ethernet cable.
Now I think my AXE has a problem with its ethernet port as I cannot reliably get the MFC to power on and always got the "Timeout" message even after checking all settings and connections. I assume it my AXE which has the issue so that is on me.
I can get the MFC to work using a 5 pin MIDI and power directly into the MFC.
Here is my beef though. I have now bought 2 different high quality 7 pin MIDI cables (one is Bestronics and one UK certified for the AXE/MFC) and 2 different power supplies and all I get is all the red lights on the MFC. Its obviously getting power because the lights are on but it will not finish the boot up.
This has been experienced by number of users and quite frankly I am very frustrated after spending some serious coin that there is only one method of powering my MFC, and the least desirable one at that. Surely there is a known cause of this issue and some resolution would be great.
As I say, love my Fractal gear but I do expect for the price that they are less fickle with connections and reliability and that this 'common' issue can be resolved.
G
These items cost some serious money though so I have expectations about reliability and performance.
My AXE MK 1 is a number of years old. I recently bought a used MFC MK3 which was shown by the previous owner to be working perfectly via ethernet cable.
Now I think my AXE has a problem with its ethernet port as I cannot reliably get the MFC to power on and always got the "Timeout" message even after checking all settings and connections. I assume it my AXE which has the issue so that is on me.
I can get the MFC to work using a 5 pin MIDI and power directly into the MFC.
Here is my beef though. I have now bought 2 different high quality 7 pin MIDI cables (one is Bestronics and one UK certified for the AXE/MFC) and 2 different power supplies and all I get is all the red lights on the MFC. Its obviously getting power because the lights are on but it will not finish the boot up.
This has been experienced by number of users and quite frankly I am very frustrated after spending some serious coin that there is only one method of powering my MFC, and the least desirable one at that. Surely there is a known cause of this issue and some resolution would be great.
As I say, love my Fractal gear but I do expect for the price that they are less fickle with connections and reliability and that this 'common' issue can be resolved.
G