[sdiy] variable midi shuffle?

[Richard Wentk]

At 21:09 31/10/2005, gregory zifcak wrote:
>regarding continuously variable swing, how difficult would it be to design 
>a box to output swung midi clock? ideally, this box would have a knob for 
>swing value, and a non-swung output as well. impossible?

Impossible. MIDI is 24 ppqn, so the only way to do it would be to do 
something bizarre like send tight groups of 12 clocks for on/off beats. And 
90% of MIDI hardware would be totally confused by that.

In fact swing has to be created individually inside MIDI clock receiver. If 
the firmware or hardware in the receiver can't do it, it's not going to happen.

Richard