Re: Repeater: Persistent Problems with Sync

[Charles Cohen <ccohen@voicenet.com>]

  I bought the repeater with the intention of syncing it to other MIDI 
rhythmic sound
making devices, and it just isn't working for me.
 
Try this experiment to make it obvious: 
  Slave a drum machine to Repeater MIDI out.
 
  Program a continuos pattern of sixteenth notes with some simple short 
sound like a rim shot,
and no other sound. Set a slow tempo on Repeater. 

  When first booted up, the Repeater seems to send a nice steady MIDI 
clock and the slaved
drum machine sounds fine at any tempo from Repeater.
 
  After *any* Play or Record operation on the Repeater, even of a silent 
loop or one of
the Factory Demo loops off the card, I hear the slaved drum machine 
hesitating at *every*
fourth sixteenth note. A small amount to be sure, but enough to make it 
musically useless
to my ear. 

  Using Repeater as a stand alone device seems to work well and is *lots* 
of fun, but
that's not what I bought it for.  If I can't get it to sync very tightly 
with other MIDI
clocked gear, I'm afraid it's going to become a door stop in my world. 
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