RE: External clock for Line 6 dl-4??

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: External clock for Line 6 dl-4??

>>I went through the first 95% of the work to build a little midi clock -->tap tempo converter.......As far as off the shelf stuff, I don't know of anything right now.<<

jon's right- the bits are easy enough to get hold of to do this, and the last 5% of making it work is definitely the daunting part.

but what I wanted to do, and specifically in response to posts on this list, was come up with something that would be fairly easy to implement by anyone with a dl4 that they didn't mind "customising" a bit, with a small drill and a soldering iron, and spending a few $$ on a little box to live near it.

I found midi>clock pulse converters on e-bay, ready-built, for about $50 or so. what I intend to do is reverse-engineer one of these and add a counter to further divide the pulse rate. there'd be an adjustment possible here for beats/bar.  I'd probably use an opto-isolator to get these pulses into the dl4 (or anything else that needs tap-tempo, like the vortex or this dod dimension12 thing I was going to write a new review of...). the whole thing would be the size of a cigarette pack and possibly midi-line powered....

as with most of us, I suspect, I haven't had the time to deal with this yet. I work full-time, and I spend a lot of my spare time and money on my band- buying gear, prepping for gigs, editing albums, preparing artwork and so forth. but my own guitarist has been banging on about this mod again lately, so maybe I'll knuckle down and do it over the "holiday".

d./r.m.i.

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