MD Slave Din Sync 808 303 MC-4
2005-01-10 by innerclock2004
Hi All, Probably like many of you I love using live hardware synced up properly for composing and performing. This is one of the reasons I love my MD so much! I also own some much loved Din Sync devices - TB, 808, MC-202, MC-4 which need no introduction. I have a nice modular synth setup as well and quite a few CV/Gate/Trig monosynths that run beautifully running from the various Din Sync Trig outputs. I have always used Clock to Din Sync convertors (Kenton/Reese etc) to run my Din Sync rig as a slave to whatever is my master Midi Clock source [MD, G4, MPC etc]. A long standing issue [10 years plus] for me is the lag or lateness in the Din Sync rig after conversion from the Midi Clock Sync. My midi rig running on it's own is tight enough for me to live with after plenty of tweeking and my Din Sync/Trigger rig is of course so tight it makes my eyes water! Put the two together with a converter and even if I try and convince myself [and believe me I've tried] it's just not on the money. The net result being I end up recording the Din Sync/Trigger stuff as audio and re-syncing it in my Mac or sampling 16 bar passes and re-triggering the samples as midi in my MPC. Sort of OK for the studio but hopeless for a live improvised performance and a 16 bar loop is never going to be the same as a synced live analogue experience. So - while losing sleep and sanity pondering this deilema over the last few years I designed a box that fixes the problem and adds some truely mind bending Din Sync options. It started out as something for me - to be honest I never assumed anyone else would be interested - but since making it and sharing it with a few close friends with Din Sync devices of their own [who now refuse to use their own rigs without my little box] I decided to make a few a share the experience. I'm getting a website together but it may be a while away so if anyone is interested - please feel free to email me. I'll send you back some photos and how much and how it works etc..... Sorry this post is so long winded but I thought it best to explain how I arrived at this point and how it related to the Elektron Users Group in the first place. All the best. David.