Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Ok got it-

You can only have one authoritative clock- think of it as a heartbeat.
Lots of shit has an inbuilt sequencer, like your drumkit, but you have
to decide which of your devices is "best" at that.
I would not have the drumkit acting as the main midi clock source as
it's mostly a live-input device, whereas your XL7 has a very
sophisticated sequencer and two outs- it should be the master clock,
and whatever else you've got downstream should be treated as a sound
module and sequenced from it.

-SS

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:43 PM, magpieindustries <dach@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have an electronic drumkit acting as midi master clock. Its connected to my XL7 which has the base tempo set to 0 (it says EXT). I can press start/stop on the drumkit and change the tempo, and the XL7 reacts fine.
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> The problems begin when I connect something else to the midi OUTs on the XL7. I have set Transmit MIDI CLock on A & B Out, but it does not seem to be transmitting any clock (it is transmitting note on/off quite ok). If I use the XL7 to merge the midi in to midi out A (or B), then I can send the start/stop messages through the xl7, but the clock messages are not arriving!!
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> If I connect the drumkit to the slave gear, it works fine, so the messages are disappearing inside the xl7, or the cables.. With this setup, if I change the base tempo to a positive number, so the XL7 is then the master, then the play and tempo controls on the xl7 are being transmitted.
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> I was pretty sure this has worked before, but I've been rearranging some gear and changes around some cables. Any suggestions for something that I may have missed?
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> / Niall
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