Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

"Stefan Weber" <skew@...> writes:
> the evolver sends midi clock all the time, and the start button only
> stops or starts the nord modular sequencers.  I am still confused by
> the different behaviour between logic audio's sequencer and evolver's
> sequencer.

I found the following somewhere via google:

   F8      11111000        Timing Clock
                           Whilst a transmitter is playing, this message is
                           sent 24 times per quarter note.
   FA      11111010        Start
                           Start the current sequence playing, from the
                           beginning. (This message should be followed with
                           Timing Clocks).
   FB      11111011        Continue
                           Continue playing the current sequence from the
                           point at which it was stopped.
   FC      11111100        Stop
                           Stop the current sequence.

With an `ordinary' sequencer, the division into start/continue/stop
makes sense, and it might also make sense to stop midi clocks when you
hit `stop'.

The evolver's sequencer is a slightly different beast though: it's not
(usually) used to play whole songs, but rather as one an element, and
hitting the start/stop button is not really the same thing as
starting/stopping a whole song -- you might very well do this many times
within a `song', and interrupting the clock sync doesn't seem all that
good idea then!

-Miles
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