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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: RE: Repeater and sync from midi
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>>I select MIDI as the sync source, and the tempo seems
to lock fairly well
from the drum machine, but when I
record the audio of the pattern from the
drum machine,
the playback sounds wierd and contorted. Not DISTORTED so
much, but just out of whack, not like the actual patter sounds.
I'm not sure what's going on with this. Anyone experience
this? Any ideas?<<
paul- have you noticed if the tempo changes when the repeater
drops out of record into playback? I get this a lot,
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Yes, seems like it will bobble a little bit and they settle in
to a solid pace again.
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and have mentioned it, and thought I was on my own with
it..... I mostly run my repeaters with external clock from a korg electribe
box or my notron as master. the repeater will record a couple of bars of
something and then drop into playback with this strange audio quality.....
on closer examination, the repeater seems to be trying,
despite the external clock, to figure out the "native" tempo of the incoming
audio for itself.
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That makes some sense. I found that Mark's
suggestion of changing the MIDI channel of the drum machien seemed to clear
this up. Like it's trying to do something with the rest of the MIDI data
coming down instead of just focusing on the clock. Maybe the Repeater just
doesn't have a filter for that stuff or something, and it's getting bogged
down trying to process what clock and what's not clock? At any rate, it's a
sophmoric development error and the dipshit that did the code for that should
be flogged.
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and it gets it wrong- in my case, it usually doubles it. so
what I hear is (say) a loop that the repeater thinks is
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In my situation, the Repeater plays at roughly the same tempo,
but the *sound* is about half the pitch or something. Is this another way of
saying what you just said?
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180bpm but being played at 90bpm which is how fast the clock
is running that's going up it's rear. I suspect it's something to do with the
exact moment you drop it out of record, but I'll have to experiment with
putting PC's into a sequencer (to replace my haphazard button pushes) and see
if that improves matters. watch this space.
I guess this is just the hazzard of using discontinued gear
from defunct companies!
I guess the real solution is just to use the clock from the
drum machine, but don't try to record the audio, just send the output to the
mixer, record the other stuff into the looper.
Paul
duncan/r.m.i
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