![]() Multiclock USB offers Hot-Plug&Play support for MIDI, DIN, Modular Clock & Analog LFO and has a built-in four channel class-compliant USB MIDI port. It features four ultra precise channels, all separately shiftable and swingable in real time to compensate slave machine delay and add groove. It converts all kinds of clock signals from one to another and is able to derive highly accurate sync with a plugin provided from the soundcard of a DAW or even generate a masterclock itself. (Nice side effect, you can control song structure that way, e.g.The multiclock USB build by E-RM Erfindungsbüro is a one-stop shop for synchronising all kinds of musical gear with great precision to a master DAW. send 16th notes and use those gates as clocks. If you want to sync to your computer and that can not sync to a hardware clock source, and you can absolutely not use audio, than i would recommend hacking your midi receiver or just directly clocking from midi notes. This can contribute to your groove/feel, like a hobbyist samba band, but can also drive anybody crazy. The problem with jitter is that many clock receivers and dividers and multipliers use some averaging to generate a stable clock. And if you also try to use ableton link, you introduce tons of jitter. ![]() That being said, using midi from the soundcard has much less jitter, but still more than audio. That will be much tighter than usb midi, which has a jitter of about max 1ms. Will need some amplification for euro levels. You can get an analog clock even without a dc coupled interface, just playback a pulse like those that e.g. It's a little cumbersome but it can be fun. All you need to do is draw a little pulse and then replicate it on the timeline at whatever interval you need. I used to do that for DIN sync sometimes. I'm sure there are other plug-ins that I'm not aware of. I've used Reaktor to generate clocks as well. Yes, there is a sync plug-in in Silent Way that can generate all kinds of clocks, and they work just fine with DC-coupled interfaces. But that's a whole different ball of wax. Oh, you're interested in analog clock, and not the MIDI clock that is referenced in the topic title and a full page of discussion? No worries, though. I don't have a physical MIDI input right now in my eurorack, either.just the FH-2 for MIDI-to-CV via USB. If you do try it I'd be interested to hear how it goes.įunnily enough, I unearthed that cable just this week when I was hunting for something else.īut since clock is simply a gate, why would I even need to go to MIDI? Wouldn't I just be able to get it directly from a dc-coupled audio output? I might not be understanding something obvious here, bear with me. It's a pretty easy cable to cobble together if you want to try it with Silent Way in demo mode. Some MIDI devices are more fussy than others when it comes to signal integrity, so it depends on your audio interface and what you're connecting to. Something similar might work with a DC-coupled interface. Before the ESX-8MD was a thing, I used the ES-5 (which just has gate outputs) with a TS->MIDI cable to output MIDI clock. So there isn't a way with Silent Way, or another way, to simply send clock out from a regular dc-coupled audio output from my audio interface, without yet another device (USAMO)? I asked on the sub-forum too, thanks for that. So there isn't another way to simply send CV clock out from a regular dc-coupled audio output from my audio interface, without yet another device/more money (USAMO in my case) to translate it back to MIDI to my eurorack (right now I don't even have a MIDI input anywhere)? It seems like there's gotta be an easier way, but maybe not. ![]() If I were starting from scratch today I'd get either the USAMO or the ES-40 + ESX-8MD. I started out with the ES-3 when it was new so I went down that route, but for literally years I have used it almost exclusively for putting out MIDI clock. The ES-3 actually requires an additional module (the ES-5) to connect to the expanders. Since it's an expander, it requires an intermediate module like the ES-40 (SPIDF) or the ES-3 (ADAT) to connect to your audio interface. Otherwise there is the ESX-8MD expander that provides 8 MIDI (or DIN sync) outputs. It uses a single analog audio output and provides a single MIDI output. The simplest and cheapest way to get going is the USAMO. What devices/modules you need depends on your audio interface, your desired number of MIDI outputs, and your budget. Silent Way is the software that generates the clock, but you need one or more hardware devices to turn that raw signal into a usable MIDI clock (well, any MIDI message, since it's not limited to just clock). It looks like it based on the videos I've seen, but just to make sure since they're quite old: I can use Silent Way to send clock from Cubase into any audio interface output I'd like, right?
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