Bugs meets Godzilla
2002-10-02 by Nick Rothwell
Another one I'd forgotten about, but which has made itself apparent from listening to live recordings of the last gig: The arpeggiator seems to drift out of sync. I'm using the XL-7 as clock master (driving a couple of Nord MicroModulars and a Max/MSP system) and using a preset-local arpeggiator. Sometimes, after holding a chord for a long time, I notice that the arpeggiation has drifted off the beat being followed by outboard modules. I just play the chord again and it's tight again. The drift is fairly slight (somewhere in demisemiquaver territory), and I don't yet have a clear-cut example: just cases where the arpeggiator has apparently drifted... somehow... -- nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com