![]() This is all fine and well, but I think it’s the adjustment that makes this interesting. Or, of course, the multiclock – like the midiclock+ before it – can simply be your stable clock source for everything else. If you really must use a USB MIDI connection, fine – that works. You can use clock signals from analog modular gear. So you can use MIDI or DIN (from more reliable MIDI gear that isn’t a computer, that is). You still retain the versatility to use what you want. That’s my explanation, not E-RM’s, so I hope they approve. Remember when you could use a phone to tell what time it was? A lady’s voice would intone from the other end, “the time is now… 7:45 and 33 seconds pm.” Think of a MIDI stream as giving you those time indications a little irregularly – not quite on the right tick – and an audio stream giving times that are always exactly correct, many times per second (44,100 times per second for a regular CD audio setting, for instance). That allows you to use a computer as a clock source without some of the nastiness that can often ensue. Whereas MIDI and MIDI over USB from a computer are inherently susceptible to jitter, E-RM claims that the audio synchronization gives them sample-to-sample accuracy. ![]() The most important thing to know about the multiclock is that it takes this obsession with getting sync right directly to your computer’s audio card. ![]() Just announced, the multiclock is the follow-up to the midiclock+, the clever MIDI sync box introduced by Berlin’s boutique E-RM Erfindungsbüro back in 2012. But the E-RM multiclock claims to do it even with a computer as the clock source – without jittering. We’ve seen boxes that claim to sync everything you have to everything else you have.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |