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> >Korg Electribe-S drum machine as master clock (Midi),
>
> Really??  I would have never guessed you used gear like that!!


I hope it will be heard when I have finished my next CD. (;->)

But I admit that I don't really make much use of the thousand
functions of the ES-1. I'm not too good at drum programming,
and sampling new sounds isn't what I will spend many hours either.

However, I'm using the ES-1 together with one of my home-built
phasers. This has two independent stereo channels, and the resonance
is rather "controlled" up to almost self oscillation, and I'm modulating
the two stereo channels with a Sample & Hold (2nd channel with
inverted modulation).
When I run the ES-1 thru *this*, it doesn't sound like samples
anymore (nor like the cheap built-in effects). The drum samples
trigger the almost-self oscillation of the phaser; that's 3 BPF peaks
on each side, and with the "pole spread" feature the 3 BPFs aren't
linked in a constant pattern like on an ordinary phaser.
If you look at these old analogue drum machines, they often contain
almost-self oscillating filters for some of the instruments, and
here it is very similar. The difference is that the pitch of these
"phaser drums" is changed with the S&H every couple of beats,
and they are triggered by samples (from the ES-1) rather than with
simple gate signals. It's a very unique drum machine, with new
instruments kicked in all the time without actually programming
them. (;->) It's hard to describe in words, but I think the next CD
will have a couple oft tracks that are based on this.

> >Frostwave Fat Contoller sequencer to convert Midi clock to analogue Gate
> >(which then is used as an analog master clock for the whole studio).
> >Digital delay (TC Electronic D-Two - awsome delay !) also sync'ed
> >to Midi Clock.
>
> I like those too, but I've made a decision not to invest in any more
> digital gear, or at least not new digital gear.  It's like setting money
on
> fire.

Well, i think along similar paths, really, but the FAT controller was
less expensive than the Korg SQ-10 which I had before, and I like
it so much better.

> I like the idea of a PLL synced BBD delay, but I don't know what math
would
> be required so that ratio between the input clock and clock driving the
BBD
> would result in a musical relationship such as a quarter note.

The length of the usual BBD chips is often a power of 2 (512, 1024 etc.),
so the inverse clock frequency and  the desired delay time will also have
some 2**n ratio. All you have to do is to "multiply" the frequency of your
midi clock or DIN sync or similar with a short variable factor (for the
"12" in the clock, and for the user defined variable factor), and then with
2*N. So a PLL with a large binary counter in the loop should do it.
(plus the little "12 and variable" stuff, as in the Blacet applications)

The drawback is the very long settling time for the PLL, so (as someone
pointed out  on this list before) you'd have to run the clock all the time,
and not just start it when your song starts.

This is *all* theory - I have *not* tried this (nor will I try it in the
near
future.)

JH.