[sdiy] midi and DIN sync in the one connector

Roman Sowa modular at go2.pl
Wed Apr 29 11:38:28 CEST 2015


Have you tried to trigger it with pulses of different durations? Or 
maybe you have no way to do it now and it can be done only with MIDI kit 
installed?
In any case I would be very interested how pulse duration at constant 
pulse amplitude affects the sounds.

Roman

W dniu 2015-04-29 o 10:23, Adam Inglis pisze:
> Yes, very good point. Another reason why I went with it, as the pulse
> duration is fully adjustable from 1ms up to something like 130ms or can
> be "gated" based on note durations, and the triggers can  be set
> positive or negative going.
>
> On 29/04/2015, at 6:13 PM, Richie Burnett wrote:
>
>>> Yeah that's why I went with it, as my investigations triggering the
>>> voices with a square wave showed some nice tonal variation below 5
>>> volts.
>>> (Well, actually, above 0 volts, as they are negative-going triggers
>>> from 5 to zero)
>>
>> Does that interface output trigger pulses of a particular duration?
>> The reason that I ask is that some of the analogue drum voices may
>> sound wrong if they aren't triggered with pulses of the correct
>> width.  For instance the TR-808 uses 1ms wide trigger pulses, and the
>> TR-909 uses 2ms trigger pulses. Many of their drum voices sound quite
>> different if the trigger pulses aren't the right duration, while
>> others aren't affected much by the trigger pulse width.  Just
>> something to keep in mind.
>>
>> -Richie,
>>
>>
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