Florian,

I'm not sure if this helps and it doesn't cover all your needs.....

I sometimes use my swedish drum machine (now with sampling! :} ) as a
clock/trigger source. There are 6 outputs, and I can use voices which are
set up as Impulses for triggers. A 16th note pattern could be my clock at
one output and I could have a start of measure trigger on another output.
Changing the preset "beat" pattern would be like changing to different clock
divisions and trigger patterns, as long as you set up some presets of
course. Then with muting tracks live (your local start) and even using the
song editor you can do a bunch ahead of time and on the fly. Of course, you
can also edit the pattern live, chain patterns together..... and add
SHUFFLE/SWING.......awesome. Sometimes I use a shuffled trigger pattern
from the drum machine and a CV pattern from the MAQ 16/3 to make shuffled
synth loops.

So anyway, if you have one of these you've probably thought of this. If
you don't have one, borrow one and try it out. so many possibilities. I
asked the swedes to release a dedicated sequencer based on their drum
machine (and now synth) but they didn't see the point. Shame.

Good luck.

nick

>From: Florian Anwander < Florian.Anwander@... >
>Reply-To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
>To: A100 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com >
>Subject: 1 tools for synchro start
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:02:13 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for something, that assumingly does not exist. ;-/ Let me
>describe it:
>
>We are several guys making improvised music with different type of
>sequencers, drummachines, arpeggiators. We do realy create the patterns
> live, so we cannot start all the seq/drum/arpggs at the same time
>(most of the gear does not allow pattern creation in play mode).
>Some of the gear is 40 years old, some is latest laptop stuff. So there
>is MIDI-Clock, Din-Sync and simple 16th trigger with separate start/stop
>controle.
>
>What I am looking for is a set of hardware tools:
>- The first tool should read the clock and start/stop signals from a
>master (or create the clock on its own). From this masterclock it should
>create a kind of "flag" trigger at the first beat of each bar (or every
>second/fourth/eight... bar). It should send the clock, the standard
>start/stop signal and the additional flag trigger.
>
>- the second tool should read the clock and this flag trigger at its
>input. It should have also a button "local start". When I hit the button
>"local start" the tool should send a start signal (and of course the
>clock itself) to its output.
>
>- the third part should convert all this to different types of clocks
>and star stop signals.
>
>
>I could imagine, that the tools #1 and #2 use MIDI-Clock and tool #3
>could be a standard MIDI-converter.
>
>Does anyone know about some gear that is able to do this Or did anyone
>ever try something like this
>
>I could realize this with diy'ing for DIN-Sync and analog trigger, but I
>am out of the business when it affects MIDI.
>
>regards, Florian
>
>

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