Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Stefan Weber wrote:

> I noticed a different quality of midi clock transmitting with different
> gear. The clavia nord modular plays very tight alongside an accurately cut looped
> sample (same tempo) for a long time. Not so the alesis drum computer SR-16,
> and neither the evolver (In the band I play in our drummer plays alongside a
> click. If this click is triggered by the nord modular's midi clock, he can
> take a break by triggering a drumloop with one of his pads. he could even have
> a drink at the bar in the meantime, come back later and would stille find
> drumloop and click syncronised)

what's happening is that the evolver and sr-16 are not responding to midi
continue messages... when i restart my sequencer in the middle of a
pattern, the evolver does not pick up on it and starts running on its own.
the only way to sync it back up is to hit stop on the sequencer and then
hit play again. the evo is listening for a start message but doesn't hear
the continue message.

the nord modular, in its flexibility, allows you to wire up sequencers to
respond to this or not. here's what you need to do to keep them sync'ed
up:

1. active AND sync outputs of midi global module ---> reset input of clock
divider module. (keeps accurate count of bar start/end, even during
stop/continue.)

2. sync output of midi global ---> reset input of main sequencer (makes
sure main seq responds appropriately to midi start/stop/continue.)

3. sync output of main sequencer --> reset input of all other sequencers
(makes sure all other sequencers follow the main one, when looping AND
when midi stop/start/continue is received)

4. clock output of clock divider ---> clock input of all sequencers (but
i'm sure you knew that already.)

i even have my sequencer patches setup to automatically sync to midi clock
if it's present, and to the internal clock if it's not. that's a lot of
fun. :)

bleep.
out.

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