[sdiy] midi clock

[Rude 66]

> >Early MIDI cables often had only two conductors... modern ones have all
five.
> >The normally unused ground pin might be a problem... or possible some
> >non-standard uses of the additional lines (I think some drum machines did
sync
> >on these ???)

it's the only thing i could think of.. some kind of ground problem with the
cables.

>
> The important lines of Roland's DIN sync connector are the 3 unused pins:
> clock, start/stop and reset.  The other two were for more esoteric uses
> (triggering the fill-in on the 808), and were "borrowed" for MIDI.  I
don't
> know of any devices that actually put both interfaces on the same plug.
>
> When you use the external split box, what's powering it?  Does it have
it's
> own power supply, or is it getting juice from the MIDI line?  If it's
> passive, or powered from the MIDI line, you've just moved the MIDI current
> driving problem one box down the line.

it's powered by the midi line.. it's just 1 input with 2 wires on the middle
3 pins going to one output each. the whole thing is starting to sound more
and more like one of those freaky coincidence problems..
i'm going to try a powered thru box, which for now sounds like the easiest
solution. the sound of a linn and a 909 together is very powerful
indeed..;-)

ruud