Re: Of percussion, Repeaters, and MIDI clocks

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Why not take the clock from the Handsonic?

Which brings up another question.  If a slaved device gets the weird 
Repeater clock, does it just pass that clock, or will some devices put 
out their own clock, based on the Repeater's clock?

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 07:53  PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.
>
> That does confirm that the setup I was contemplating wouldn't be viable.
> What I had wanted to do was feed the Handsonic into a Repeater and put 
> my
> Mo-FX in the Repeater's effects loop. The stereo, effects loop, and
> multitrack features seemed pretty useful in that context -- more so than
> when doing guitar looping where the EDP is working well for me. However,
> since my goal would be to have it determine tempo to feed the Mo-FX 
> from the
> recorded loop length, that just doesn't seem like an option. Pity -- 
> though
> it saves me the trouble of looking for a Repeater.
>
> I could record the initial loop into an EDP and then dump that to the
> Repeater, but if I'm going to do that, I might just as well do it all 
> on the
> EDP.
>
> Mark
>