a project I've been asked to build...

[Paul Perry]

At 01:46 AM 29/04/98 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day all,
>
>I've been asked by a drummer friend of mine to build a visual
>display to help her keep in time with a sequencer. Something
>that can just hang off the end of a MIDI chain and flash
>four lights in time with the incoming MTC.
.....well I don't know your budget but John Blacet has those 
PIC chips programmed to convert mtc to 24ppq din sync...
then all you do is divide by 24
i have some of these (havnt used them yet)..VERY low component
count (a crystal, cap and thats it)

but if a friend asked ME, I'd take an unloved module and 
ser it to receive a click track.. then drive a led either
directly or via a little amp & resistor..

WARNING: dont stick a led directly accrioss an output unless
you are a synth technician living on the gold coast.. but
sometimes it works, sometimes it is just the output stage gone..

paul perry melbourne australia

BTW, for a luxury model, you would want a line display of leds
where the leftmost one comes on BEFORE the beat and so on..
this way you can put feel into the drumming