What new booty have you acquired? (Page 43 of 189)

hs80m's, finally i can hear the 808 kick

hey ramos, would like to hear your opinion on the monitors.. i've been thinking about the same pair

I think a lot of this "Atari has the best midi timing" thing is an urban myth. What are people defining as better midi timing? What are you comparing it against, what has bad midi timing? Are you talking about the midi clock signal or midi notes or both?

i have a pair too. Hard to say if they are great or not because the only other ones i have used are the event 20/20's. I can say that they are a lot different. I have a lot of trouble hearing what things will sound like on large speaker systems.  The way my room is set up I have to stand 6 feet away to hear the bass fully hit.

you can get mice ( i think they are originally made for commodores) that are less clunky for the atari.

the midi sync story is not a myth, its 100% true. i've worked with them for many years, and after that even using mmt8's, mc500's, q80's, mpc's, or anything on a mac or pc, i've never encountered such tight timing. as in"everything runs in tight sync with each other, and every note is played as it should be. even in my current setup i have to start a track 3 or 4 times before i have 4 drum machines in midi clock, one in midi clock-din sync and 2 synth arpeggiators running 100% in sync. on the atari this took one try.

midiclock sending from modern PCs/MACs and so, is not reliable indeed for sequencing older stuff (and modern arps and so aswell). Midiclock generated by  a PC or Mac tends to drift quite alot (jittering) and when starting, it happens many times  that a external seq start a note too late or so aswell...I gave up and installed midi mods in all my seq gear hehe. I sequence em directly from my DAW then you will have no probs...But no 'groove' aswell hehe

One application where its comes also above water is when syncing via PC/Mac midiclock external delays. Some delays from cheap ass synths will skip and retrigger/restart delay again and again, because the delay gets a new clockspeed every random sec. Quasimidi was one of the brands thats suffers alot from this for instance.

Thats a good good price I have one and its a whole heap of fun. You can only trigger the Ensemble by using a footswitch tho..

The Atari can be updated quite well these days.  I've got my Atari connected to an SVGA adapter cable going into my TFT screen - my PC is connected to the DVI input and the input can be swapped over from the TFT menu.  It's great having a hi-res mode on a big TFT, years ago I used medium-res on a black and white 12" telly!

For the mouse I'm using PeST, which lets you use a standard PS2 mouse and has mouse acceleration.  Works really well.

Just about to order UltraSatan  - a CompactFlash based hard drive.

All this to run Trackman, a shit hot pattern based sequencer, modelled on the Linn 9000.

I recently tested out Ableton Live 7 running on my PC, sending a midi clock signal out via a Motu 828 MKII device into a Kenton Pro Solo II ( to convert midi to din-sync) and from this into the din-sync port of a TR808.

I set Ableton as the master clock and let it play at 120 bpm, and had a pattern running on the TR808 which just consisted of a rim shot on every beat (4 rim shots in a bar). I recorded this at 44100hz and let it play for about five minutes. Then I opened the audio file up in a wave editor and did a bit of checking.

The 44100hz sampling frequency means that 44100 samples will be recorded every second, so that means 44.1 samples = 1 millisecond. So starting from the first rim shot each one should be exactly 0.5 seconds after the other (4 rims in one bar, 120bpm / 60 * 4 = 0.5). 0.5 seconds = 22050 samples. So each rim shot should be 22050 samples after the other.

Going through the five minutes of rim shots  I measured a maximum deviation (ie jitter) of where the rim shot should be of only 8 samples, which is approximately 0.181 milliseconds.

I'd be interesting in getting an Atari if its timing is even better. What kind of adapter are people using with their Atari to get midi out, and what sequencing software is being used?

Just sync your 808 with audio.

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