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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Gordius can't on it's own wait to start on the beat. > Because it just counts midi *ticks*. > That's all it does. > OK... > > Look up what a midi *tick* is....then you'll understand. > 24 ticks per beat, or similar. DER.. Er thanks Andy... Look up what a *patronising git* is... then you'll understand how others see you (PS: look up "sarcasm" and "no hard feelings" too, while you are at it???) > > Midi Clock *doesn't* tell the receiving device where the beat is. > It's just a stream of identical ticks. > > If you start the sequence at the right place, it'll run in time. > If not, it'll be synced in the out of time position. > Well I knew that too, but this is where there are some interesting "its just the way it is" for me things. I certainly used to have to start my drum-machine on the downbeat to be certain of it being totally "in-synch", but I as it would always start automatically on reception of the EDP midi clock.. THEN when I bring in the command I want, by un-muting the bass synth part of the drum-machine (I used this for programming the midi commands) it already was in synch. Which brings us back to square one... Or square 2 actually... At least you can send a stream of commands seperated by a beat, and half beat a quarter beat (3 *ticks" right?) ... thats certainly fast enough for most situations... a 16th beat being 6 ticks If Im not mistaken? Which just brings us to synching... obviously dependant on Xavier willing to do something with this anyway... which he might be more inclined to if I actually bought the fucking thing.. but I digress.. The Gordius obviously KNOWS When it starts receiving midi ticks right? So we need a command that says.. delay this thang till we reach a user specified division of ticks. So really its just to say... START COUNTING!!!! OK.. he hit a pedal, now wait for a number devisable by 6.. now you got 16th notes dude! Or am I missing something and I should go back to the forest? Sorry for harping on about this everyone, I hope Im not boring you'all, its just such a major part of my performance technique that changing systems is a fiddly "head fudge"... Mark -- mark francombe www.markfrancombe.com www.ordoabkhao.com twitter @markfrancombe http://vimeo.com/user825094 http://www.looop.no