RE: Repeater clock

["Goddard, Duncan" <goddard.duncan@mtvne.com>]

 >> just started using the Repeater midi clock to try and sync up some loops and it seems to be rubbish ..... would it be worth spending a few quid on something better? <<

 

try it without the merge box first, before trying to find (!) a new midi merge/patch device- they are fast going the way of the snow leopard....

 

I have used my repeaters as master clocks- still do in my home studio, & with all manner of mergers & throughs going on, to accommodate three or four different hardware sequencers. I do not see even the 0.5bpm wobble, let alone the 5bpm- that would be catastrophic in my rig too.

the repeaters are both running the latest (i.e. last) release, but even before that they were pretty solid.

 

fwiw, I use them like this so I can tap-tempo the whole rig after writing a guitar/bass/keyboard loop into the 'peater, then I make up the hardware sequencer patterns over that, often changing the tempo a bit deliberately. I use a lot of syncopated delays, so clock stability is important. I do not have any issues, even though I am merging the clock stream with other data twice (once in a novation keyboard & once in a truly ancient mains-powered merge box, to fold in one of the h/w sequencers that has no soft-through). the stream also passes through two other hardware sequencers.

these are, in order, a doepfer maq 16/3, an octopus & a sequentix p3.

 

hth-

 

duncan. 

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