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By Mr. Mind Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:45 pm
so the MPC does tempo in 1/10ths of a BPM(i.e 93.2), which is cool. my question is this: when you sync other pieces of gear to use the MPCs tempo, but the other piece of gear doesn't have 1/10th BPM, it only has whole numbers, does that screw with your sync, or are the tempo parameters of your other gear inconsequential when using the MPC as your sequencer.

thanks.

By Dahkter Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:25 am
You need a master (say MPC) and a slave (say this random piece of kit that doesn't have 1/10 bpm).
The slave would have to be able to chase (receive) midi clock, this is what MPC spits out to the slave to make it follow tempo.
The midi clock data that the MPC spits is 24ticks per 1/4 note. The slave will hear these ticks and play back at the same rate.
So no, the other gear should bounce at the same exact rhythm and stay on time indefinitely as long as it can slave to midi clock.