fantastic clockings of an analog sequencer from a MIDI device

[Saul Stokes]

Yowza!  I just bought an Akai mpc2000 which is this drum sampling
workstation thing. Now, it use to be that when I used my Terrence Thomas
MIDI to pulse converter, if you hit play on a MIDI sequencer it would
start the pulser running. Then you would tune out the unwanted pulses
until you had a good timing. It was really time consuming and a pain in
the ear to do this since you basically had to sit around fiddling a couple
of knobs to try to get the MIDI pulser to sinc up. Well well well.  I just
got to the point where I was going to do this with my mpc2000 when it
didn't seem to put out this constant clock that my old digital seq had. 
Instead you can give the MIDI pulser it's own track and when you hit the
pads of the drum machine it pushes the midipulser forward thus driving the
sequencer.  Now this in itself is super cool because you can tap in any
series of timings and the sequencer will chug forward to it.  (I use to do
this with Paia's MIDItoCV8 or just by playing a click type sound into an
Audio to trigger circuit). This means fully recordable pulses!  Now if you
play with the knobs on Terrence's MIDIpulser you get MULTIPLE STAGE ADVACES
EACH TIME YOU HIT A DRUM PAD. So you can do totally wild rhythms with an
analog sequencer and have them all recorded for playback!!! Not to mention
the fact that one song can have tons of sequencer pulse changes and all of
it completely recordable!  There is no way I will sleep tonight. 

Saul