I thought that this issue had been resolved in the firmware updates because I hadn’t noticed it occurring. But I also haven’t used my unit often enough. Just today I sampled, assigned and saved some audio, then ended up at the base screen. But the pad didn’t output any audio, so I thought I must have levels set incorrectly.
But no, none of my pads were outputting through the individual outs that were working fine a minute earlier. Then I realised it must be this old problem, so I turned up the heaphones, and that’s working fine. I’m no longer using the mix outs or USB like I used to, but using individual outs into an interface. On hitting pads, I can see a tiny amount of signal (-60db) registering. Maxing out the gain on the interface and boosting to +40db on the S2400 I can get a reasonable though extremely distorted level through the output.
Going into sample mode then back again, the pads all work again outputting as expected. Going in and out of sample mode several more times didn’t cause the issue again, but now I’m wary of it occurring at any moment and causing a nuisance.
I have no idea what the deal with this issue is, why the machine suddenly wants to disable mix and individual outs, but still output through headphones. I presume the tiny level still sent through the individual outs is crosstalk from the headphone output?