[sdiy] Techniques for Multiplying MIDI Clock frequency?

[Benjamin Tremblay]

I’m assuming all it does is divide by 12 to get a 16th note. 

Benjamin Tremblay

> On Dec 18, 2021, at 3:53 PM, Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 2:15 PM Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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>> 2) I wish I understood the theory of clock multipliers. I have seen code that measures the period between clock pulses and dead reckons the double-time pulse as an average of the recent periods. But why? Why can’t I just fire another extra HIGH-LOW pulse whenever I get a MIDI clock event? Why does timing of the extra ticks matter?  I’m assuming 48 PPQ divides the clock down to individual sequencer steps on the KPR-77. As long as the divided clock is coming in on the beat, what does it matter if some of the synthetic pulses are a little off? (They’re just shadows of the main tempo clock). It’s not like the KPR-77 is inferring something or trying to calculate BPM from the external clock… So… Anyway I just wish I knew what I was aiming for, and then maybe I could hit the target.
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> One suspects that most people are trying to write a general purpose converter.  E.g. you could run those 48ppq out to some other module, like an analog sequencer, and it would keep time.  I'm not familiar with the KPR-77, but I'm also slightly puzzled by the idea that some piece of gear would require 48PPQN but not care about the timing of half of the pulses.
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> Pete 
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