RE: Beat Sync For DL4??

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: Beat Sync For DL4??

>>Ever get it worked out?<<

it is my firm and avowed intention to take the bottom off of my dl4 this weekend and put a voltmeter across the relevant switch. that is, if my dl4 is actually around.... my band's gear is split between our london studio (i.e. my house) and a rehearsal space in stockport, manchester, and I can't quite remember where the dl4 is at. but I'm going to make this happen.

I want to develop something very simple- at most, a 3.5mm jack socket and a transistor/opto-isolator/handful of resistors to add either internally or externally to the dl4 (or actually any tap tempo device- the vortex springs to mind, and the dod dimension12, which I've been having a great time with btw).

this would be driven by any clock that can make an LED light up... so one might have to add a socket to this other bit of gear too, but I think that's a small price to pay for the functionality.

I have mentioned devices that can be bought or built quite cheaply that will derive this pulse from midi-clock, but I'm guessing folks might not need to do this if, for instance, they already have something that's midi-clocked that blinks an LED at the right rate. I have a bunch of midi sequencers that flash their lights and produce gate signals... a more elaborate solution might include a counter circuit that would divide down such a pulse to produce "taps" at half- or quarter- rates.

I'm not sure what to do about defeating or modifying this function when the dl4 is switched to sample-mode, because the relevant footswitch is doing something different then.

anyway- watch this space.

d.

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