MIDI=>Triggers box?

[mark verbos]

Sounds like a good chance to use the Blacet MIDI to sync chip. It takes MIDI and
converts it to start, stop and 24ppq output. Then you just use somethign like the
bacet or polyfusion (on the aparently defuct synthfool page) clock devider to get
the other rates.


mark





Drew Smith wrote:

>         Hey folks,
>
>         Well, still a newbie at this.  Work has taken me away from DIY projects
> for a while.
>
>         I'm tweaking my kit down a bunch, trying to make it so I don't have to
> lug so many heavy synths around - and as such, am picking up quite a few
> little analogue toys.
>
>         I need something to trigger them - here's my ideal box: I want to
> buy/build a box with 15 1/4" jacks on the top of it, in five rows of
> three.  The box will also have MIDI-in and MIDI-thru jacks on the side.
> The rows of jacks will be arranged in order of speed - the first set of
> three will output a trigger on every whole note - the second outputs a
> trigger on every half-note, the third row on every quarter, the fourth
> on every eighth, the fifth on every sixteenth, the sixth on
> thirty-seconds, etc.  Or, alternatively, ten triggers with ten knobs to
> set the trigger-value.  Or something.
>
>         I'm tired of lugging around a Korg DDD-1 drum machine to provide the
> arpeggiator-clock trigger for the Juno-60 and PolySix.  I have a few
> other bits of gear to trigger as well, and that DDD-1 just doesn't fit
> into my musical style in the slightest - in fact, it's big, heavy, and
> sounds like crap.
>
>         I'm sure something like this exists, but I can't find it.  Does anyone
> know where I can get schematics of something like this, or a kit, or
> pointers, or ANYTHING?  Is this common, and I just don't know what it's
> called?
>
>         Cheers,
>         - Drew.
>
> --
> Drew Smith, UNIX Network Administrator
> Pacific Corporate Trust Company, Vancouver

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