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Re: Repeater and sync from midi in



At 08:06 AM 03/07/19, Paul Sanders wrote:
> >
> > no, they did it right. You should have your drum machine on a different
> > midi channel from the repeater. clock is global, so it doesn't matter 
>what
> > channel the devices are on for sync to midi clock.
>
>I don't consider that *right*. The RIGHT way to do it would be to develop
>such that this like this wouldn't cause obscure problems for people who
>don't happen to know.

hee hee (LOL for Mark's benefit)


>What about the case where a person is sending MIDI
>program changes to the beat box via a MIDI foot controller that only
>supports one midi channel (like the multitude of FCB1010 users might be
>doing, and I would be doing if I hadn't taken the 1010 back)? They are 
>then
>screwed.

If the repeater and beat box were on different channels you would still be 
able to get clock from one to the other and be able to use a dumb 
controller to send program changes to the beat box.

The FCB1010 IS able to send multiple messages on independent channels.