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MIDI clock adders? (was: Re: OT: Akai arpeggiator

2011-01-04 by zoinky420

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
>
> There can be only one MIDI clock stream on one MIDI circuit, it's not  
> possible to mix two.

Of course, who said anything about mixing clocks?

> 
> Of course it's possible to mix outputs of musical (e.g. channel) data  
> from two sequencers or MIDI players running at two different tempos.  
> It has sense in the case when each sequence uses different MIDI  
> channels as then there can't be any data confict (like Note On/Off,  
> controllers, PB, AT and so). Rather experimental attitudes, those  
> polytempi...
> 
> I got the same result - polytempi - when I multiplied or divided  
> position of notes by some constant different from 1 in old good  
> Notator on Atari (= time compression or expansion with MIDI data).  
> Then each track got different tempo despite the fact there only one  
> clock with main tempo.
> 

So you were not mixing clocks and it didn't work, and therefore Atom Smasher is wrong?

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