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





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-Justin
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goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:
>>>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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