Problems
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:16 pm
I'm afraid I'm not getting on with the Warbl I bought in April. I had an iPhone 5C originally which wasn't giving satisfactory results, so I bought an iPhone 6S and then lockdown happened and my mind was on other things. But last night, encouraged by my daughter's boyfriend who's a bit of a wizard with midi instruments, we decided to give it a go again.
Initially we got a tune out of the chanter, overblowing with vented mouthpiece, although not quite executing rolls and triplets. The configuration tool informed me that I needed a firmware update so I wondered if that was the problem. My laptop is a Chromebook so I had to download the adafruit drivers to my Windows 7 PC and install. I installed all of them, though I suspect I didn't need to do that?
The QMK tool auto-flashed after a double tap and did everything the manual said. The result was the configuration tool still says I need an update and when I reconfigure, even after factory reset, the sensor calibration has got worse. IE. its almost impossible to play a tune.
I'm quite discouraged. I'm fairly technical and my daughter's boyfriend more so, but we're struggling. I kind of expected that out of the box I would quickly be playing tunes although getting the true 'uilleann' feel would take some tweaking, but this feels like something more serious.
Initially we got a tune out of the chanter, overblowing with vented mouthpiece, although not quite executing rolls and triplets. The configuration tool informed me that I needed a firmware update so I wondered if that was the problem. My laptop is a Chromebook so I had to download the adafruit drivers to my Windows 7 PC and install. I installed all of them, though I suspect I didn't need to do that?
The QMK tool auto-flashed after a double tap and did everything the manual said. The result was the configuration tool still says I need an update and when I reconfigure, even after factory reset, the sensor calibration has got worse. IE. its almost impossible to play a tune.
I'm quite discouraged. I'm fairly technical and my daughter's boyfriend more so, but we're struggling. I kind of expected that out of the box I would quickly be playing tunes although getting the true 'uilleann' feel would take some tweaking, but this feels like something more serious.