• p-tu
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Topic: Accurate and stable software MIDI-clock with shuffle and stuff

Okay, my sequencer software project has been on hold for a long time because I've been very busy doing all kinds of other stuff. Anyways, I got back in business and I got started by making a master clock software, which I think some of you robots might find interesting.

Here's the deal:
- the clock has the accuracy and stability comparable to hardware sequencers (analyzed against a Korg ER-1)
- there's a built-in shuffle which shuffles the whole clock signal (handy for old drum machines)
- there's a synchronized stop/start-feature (also handy for old drum machines smile )

The user interface is really simple and you need only a few keys from the keyboard to use it

http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl4238/ptc/master/screenshot.jpg

Here's a couple of sample mp3s (using ptc-master, TR-606 and ER-1)

- http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl4238/ptc/master/p … demo-3.mp3 demonstrating pretty much all of the features, the first 4 measures are out of sync and then the autoreset feature is applied

- http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl4238/ptc/master/p … r-demo.mp3 some distorted techno action

And last but not least, the software itself:
http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl4238/ptc/master/ptc-master.zip

- it's a standalone Windows application which requires no installation (the zip includes the exe and instructions)
- it's fun and free! smile

Please send feedback / bug reports / ideas etc. to: perttu.lindroos@nbl.fi

...or you can post stuff here too smile

  • From: Britney
  • Registered: 2008-07-09
  • Posts: 547

Re: Accurate and stable software MIDI-clock with shuffle and stuff

impressing demo.. i grabbed the software and will give it a try
good work

3 Reply by p-tu (edited by p-tu 2011-03-14 15:20:57)

  • p-tu
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Re: Accurate and stable software MIDI-clock with shuffle and stuff

olivier8 wrote:

impressing demo.. i grabbed the software and will give it a try
good work

Cool smile Note that you should start the program from Windows Explorer, not the command prompt (which means that you can ignore the command line arguments). That is because of the type of event handling I used for keyboard control.

Edit: oh, and if the device ID selection seems somehow unclear, you just need to type the number of the device and hit enter, so when the program shows a device like "Device ID #0: Name of the device" and you want to select that -> just type 0 and hit enter.