Elektron Musical Instruments

hi

>  if my machine drum is set as its slave
>but receives midi data on midi channel 5 then it will
>still be on the echoplex's master clock even though
>the data is transmitting into another midi channel?

right. usually the MIDI channel (1-16) doesn't matter when 
transmitting/receiving MIDI sync signals.

>
>- does anyone know you have a special input configured
>on your nord modular patches to make sure they receive
>incoming midi clock signals? I am not sure i fully
>understand the 'kbd" rec about NM1's from before.

My advice is to read the NM manual, especially the chapters covering 
the various types of sequencers and sync modules.

I'm not in front of my NM1 right now, but I'm pretty sure you have to 
use a MIDI global module to sync your NM patch to external MIDI. 
That's what I usually do when I want to sync my sequencer patches to 
my DAW or MPC.

Basically you set the NM to External Sync, then you use a Global MIDI 
module to transmit the external MIDI sync to the seq modules of your 
patch.

Don't forget to use a Clock Divider (the MIDI Global sync output is 
24 pulses per beat, so you might wanna use a Divider set to 6 to get 
a 16th notes sync pulse) and to have all your seq modules sync'd to 
the same Reset signal, so they all start and stop at the same time.

hope this helps
leo




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