Re: What is the absolutely smallest drum-machine EVER!

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

mark francombe wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
>wrote:
>> The EDP keeps track of where you are in the beat.
>> The Gordius can't know when to Quantise.
> 
> Well probably quantise is the wrong word, effectively the same though.
> Just to be clear what I mean...
> Im imagining THIS scenario.
> 
> Two hits of  a gordius pedal set to RECORD defines the tempo of
> course, midi clock is sent out of EDP (via a merge probably) BACK to
> the Gordius.
> A switch on Gordius can be pressed,at ANY time, and.. because gordius
> is listening to midi clock IN.. WAITS before for a division of the
> beat. Lets say an 8th beat.. (this gap might be anything smaller than
> an 8th.) It sends out an UNDO command.. then waits for the same
> division (8th) and then fires off another UNDO, waits an 8th... UNDO
> etc etc as long as I keep my foot down.. I release.. its stops...
> OR.. A more complex sequence or MULTS INSERTS SPEED CHANGES, REVERSES,
> in a loop, all divided by a preset division.

ok, here's the bottom line

Gordius can't on it's own wait to start on the beat.
Because it just counts midi *ticks*.
That's all it does.


Look up what a midi *tick* is....then you'll understand.
24 ticks per beat, or similar.

Midi Clock *doesn't* tell the receiving device where the beat is.
It's just a stream of identical ticks.

If you start the sequence at the right place, it'll run in time.
If not, it'll be synced in the out of time position.


> in the evening Hilde sang a strange Norwegian song for
> the kids... I videoed it.. it was very strange and haunting! Im gonna
> make a track out of it.. glitch it up a bit... with her permission Ill
> post later...

would like to hear the original too!
best regards
andy