Re: Syncing Two Repeaters

[Zoe Keating <cello@zoekeating.com>]

ah...midi channels. right. thank you!

what are the issues you've had with the clock out? i noticed that my
friend's repeater was showing the same BPM and her loop had the same
starting point as mine, which is all we wanted at the time, besides a cup 
of
tea (but i haven't figured out the CC# for that yet).




> From: mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>
> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:37:37 -0700
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Syncing Two Repeaters
> Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:37:43 -0400
> 
> All you have to do is put them on different MIDI channels and you won't
> have this issue...
> 
> However, you'll have another issue.  While the Repeater is great for
> syncing to a MIDI clock, it's own clock out SUCKS.  You may not be able
> to do it at all.  It's one of the Repeater's most serious flaws, in my
> opinion.  When I do this, I use some sort of 3rd unit as the source of
> clock, such as a drum machine.  Then it works fine.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Mark Sottilaro
> 
> On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 12:28  PM, Zoe Keating wrote:
> 
>> I recently started working with another repeater-enhanced musician. We
>> would
>> like to sync the tempos of our repeaters, but nothing else. When I
>> hooked up
>> my repeater to be the master, we discovered: when I changed the track
>> volume
>> on mine, her track volume was also altered; when I pressed stop, hers
>> stopped; and so on through most of the midi functions I was accessing
>> with
>> my feet.
>> 
>> I haven't been able to find it in the manual, but surely there must be
>> a way
>> to have ONLY the tempo of one repeater be controlled by another
>> (please,
>> please, please!!) ?
>> 
>> Had anyone tried this?
>> 
>> thanks much, zoe
>> 
>