[sdiy] Tap tempo & pulse/clock ideas needed

[Thomas Dunker]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Roman wrote:

> If I understand your need the right way, here's how I'd fo it:
> first tap button hit fires a counter, every next one rewrites
> counted value to some register and resets the counter. Then
> this value is divided by any desired "musial multiple" and
> fed to another counter, that triggers pulse out, when this 2nd
> counter has counted down to 0 (and reloaded of course).
>
> Valid pulse output right after 2 hits of tap button.
> Simple job to do in a micro (can I say PIC?), not so simple
> in discrete logic.
> And with the micro it would be no problem to output triggers
> and MIDI messages at the same time

 Thanks, Roman - and everybody else who replied.

 I have come to the conclusion - so far - that since a MIDI sequencer will
be useful to me anyway, it makes more sense to have all the clock stuff
taken care of on the MIDI side of things. I found a reasonably priced tap
tempo injector pedal for MIDI which looks interesting:

http://www.ploytec.com/

 I figure that with a MIDI to CV + trig/gate device I should be able to
sync MIDI synths etc. with non-MIDI synth gear (like an analog
sequencer) via the same MIDI sequencer or PC software.

 Any potential problems with such a setup?

Thomas