Hi Dan

basically there is no difference between DIN-Sync or MIDI. The problem
is, that the internal clock and tempo of the slaved devices can be
derived in many different ways from the master clock. There are direct
divide down clocks and there are extrapolated tempo translations (like
the MFB drum machine). And some of the extrapolations use only the time
dfference between two clock ticks (which will work with a shuffled
clock), others use the average out of six clock ticks (which will not
work with an shuffled clock).

As an example: The TR-808/606/TB303 do extrapolation, but they work like
charm with the shuffle box. The TR909 does stumble with a shuffled
clock. The Korg EMX does ignore the shuffle a low shuffle amounts, and
will stop playing at high shuffle amount. The Xbase09 again works
perfectly with a shuffled clock....

A flawless shuffle can be achieved only by internally generation in the
slaved device, or with an slaved device that works with direct divide
down clock.

Florian

On 17.05.14 15:52 , raccoon_boy@... 1 wrote:
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> Interesting, this makes a lot of sense, from my experiences.
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> I'll look into this shufflebox which I've heard about before.
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> Are there any alternate approaches to get getting things shuffling in
> sync that are more reliable or is MIDI our best bet
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> Thanks
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> Dan
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