Midi keeps cutting out on Garageband (Mini mac)

I am using a (very old) Roland R70 drum machine as a trigger pad for the drum sounds on Garageband on my mini mac.
I have connected it via a midi/usb connector. To my surprise when I connected it for the first time it instantly worked and drum sounds were being triggered!! However, within a few minutes the drums stopped!
If I click onto another 'track' on Garageband and then click back to the drum track and the drums are there again....but for a few seconds, then the link goes and the drums disappear. This leads me to believe its not my connector or the drums machine. Because every time i do this 'reset' (clicking over to another track and then back again) the drums return.
Anyone have any idea why my mid signal keeps dying??

Sweep123 wrote:
Bump - anyone got any ideas on this?
Here is something that may or may not apply.  In other thread(s), I recall at least one other case where a person was having intermittent Midi communication issues.  It turned out to be his cheaper USB/midi cable device was the issue, and the problem went away when he upgraded it.  [That issue is somewhat troubling, as I personally have been eyeing a relatively inexpensive (i.e., <$8 online)  USB/midi cabling device too.  Evidently, sometimes they work, but can also fail.]

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