Doepfer

Hi Dan

basically there is no difference between DIN-Sync or MIDI. The problem 
is, that the internal clock and tempo of the slaved devices can be 
derived in many different ways from the master clock. There are direct 
divide down clocks and there are extrapolated tempo translations (like 
the MFB drum machine). And some of the extrapolations use only the time 
dfference between two clock ticks (which will work with a shuffled 
clock), others use the average out of six clock ticks (which will not 
work with an shuffled clock).

As an example: The TR-808/606/TB303 do extrapolation, but they work like 
charm with the shuffle box. The TR909 does stumble with a shuffled 
clock. The Korg EMX does ignore the shuffle a low shuffle amounts, and 
will stop playing at high shuffle amount. The Xbase09 again works 
perfectly with a shuffled clock....

A flawless shuffle can be achieved only by internally generation in the 
slaved device, or with an slaved device that works with direct divide 
down clock.

Florian


On 17.05.14 15:52 , raccoon_boy@yahoo.com [Doepfer_a100] wrote:
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> Interesting, this makes a lot of sense, from my experiences.
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> I'll look into this shufflebox which I've heard about before.
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> Are there any alternate approaches to get getting things shuffling in
> sync that are more reliable? or is MIDI our best bet?
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> Thanks
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> Dan
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