Synchronizing Sequencers

 

Michel wrote:

Recently I've been trying to to have both 16th and 32nd notes running in a patch on the modular. See the attached patch to see how I think it should work. Unfortunately, with every clockstart (I use an external clock, so I can start when I want), I get different results. Sometimes it runs fine, but most of the time it's out of time. Start the patch a few times and hear for yourselves. Uusally it's no more than one 32nd note off, but that makes a big difference (of course). I also attached 2 short mp3s with the right loop and a wrong loop.

Explanation of the patch:

for the 16th notes I divide the clock by 6 and for the 32nd notes by 3. That way the 32nd notes run twice as fast as the 16th notes. I combine the sync and the active outputs of the clock and send that to all the resets on the sequencers. That way they not only react on the sync pulse, but every time I restart the external clock all the sequencers start where I want them to start. I haven't quite understood it yet, but it works perfectly. Because the 32nd notes go twice as fast as the 16th notes, the sync pulse for the 32nds should come only half as often. That's why I divide the sync pulse, after it is combined with the active pulse, by 2. The link from the active out to the restart of this clockdivider is again something I don't really understand, but it seems to work.

Hope any of you can help me out.

Wrong.mp3

Right.mp3

Lennart Regebro wrote:

You are not resetting the 16th and 32th dividers. They need to be reset to, in my experience. (Done by the On/Off switch in the patch - red)

Also read Manual V3 Page 186 - 189 (red)