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clock device

2003-10-15 by roelp23

Hi Dave and others,
Thanks for the replies on my 'debounce'problem. I thouht I should do 
something like that but I didn't knew what. No I have a start point, 
and I'm sure I'll find the right way to solve the problem. I'm not 
much of a technician and I don't understand anything of CPU's and 
stuff like that, but I'm quite handy and I got a technician friend 
who learned me soldering, etching PCB's and reading cirquits etc.
With him I builded a clock for syncing my sh101, ms20 and rythmboxes 
to dinsync. I find it really stupid that most of my midi-equipment 
can't stop and start independent when it opperates as a slave device. 
I only want that the 'beat' is in sync and not the start/stop. I 
don't know how to program a CPU for doing such thing, but I know how 
to do it with dinsync. And Colin designed a great midi to DINsync to 
midi device wich I wanna use for the Master clock machine. I'm not 
exactly sure how the machine is going to work, I want to order the 
CPU experimental kit for maybe I'll undestand something of it.
But for the 'turntable-feeling' the friend of mine came with a very 
good solution he saw somewere, using a real turntable. I think it's 
quite simple and I'm going to try it soon. Using a disk/record with  
white and black stripes/blocks, from centre to outside. Then hanging 
a photodiode above the record with some cirquitery witch generates a 
clock pulse, when the disk is turning. From that clock pulse I can 
generate DINsync, and so midiclock. So with such a system you should 
be able to manege the main clock with your turntable. Of course you 
can't reverse your clock, but push and pull your clock will be very 
simple. I'll start experimenting soon.
By the way, I'm still waitng for my PLED module so nothing to report 
yet.
Cheers,
Roel

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