Audiowerkstatt has announced the availability of the midi-clock-multiplier v2.
The audiowerkstatt midi-clock-multiplier v2 is a clock-multiplier for
the MIDI-clock. It has all functions of the original audiowerkstatt
midi-clock-multiplier, but comes in a powder-coated steel-encloser and
stores its settings.
The company says that it’s ‘very useful if you have a very slow song and want to add a new fast track to it, which is faster than the master-clock,’ and that it’s good for creating polyrhythmic music.
See the Audiowerkstatt site for details.
It would be nice if this had a clock divider mode (make 120bpm become 60bpm). This would be useful for JD-Xi users, since JD-Xi allows eight-bar sequences, but only if using 32nd notes and only if the tempo is divided by two (so, we can have the master clock be 120bpm, but make the JD-Xi think it’s 60bpm so you can have your eight-bar drum pattern or bass line play there).
I am not a JD-Xi user which is probably why I don’t understand the limitation, but wouldn’t you get the same result by using the JD-Xi as master, set to 60bpm, connected to “Audiowerkstatt midi-clock-multiplier v2” which then doubles the clock to 120bpm for the other gear?
There is also a “midi clock divider”: https://www.audiowerkstatt.de/en/midi-clock-divider
> This would be useful for JD-Xi users, since
> JD-Xi allows eight-bar sequences, but only
> if using 32nd notes
use juno ds instead.
Yes, I agree with Caulixtla……guess I will wait for V3.
ummm. the divider is adifferent product. https://www.audiowerkstatt.de/en/midi-clock-divider
hi everybody,
thanks for your interest. i don’t know, if there will ever be a v3 😉
but if you need it – there is also a midi-clock-divider:
https://www.audiowerkstatt.de/en/midi-clock-divider
and in one or two month the “midi-clock-divider v2” in steel-enclouser will also be available.
best wishes
olaf – audiowerkstatt
Any chance of combining the two into one device? Even if it cost the same as both units do separately, an all in one device would be very convenient.
hi,
no – there are no plans in that direction.
there is the idea, to do perhaps one day a real big audiowerkstatt midi-clock-tool, including midi-restarter, midi-clock-divider, midi-clock-multiplier, midi-clock-shifter – and even some more cool ideas i have in my mind. but that will be much bigger and more expensive, that it will be too much for most people. and it’s just an idea and other things are fixed plans to do before. but at least it has a bigger chance to come, than a “v3” of the existing 7 clock-tools.
to explain the existing:
when the midi-clock-divider was started, there was absolutly no idea of doing a multiplier, but there were so many customers who asked for one, that after some years the midi-clock-multiplier came. audiowerkstatt is a small company and has limited resources, so the decision was to use the hardware of the existing clock-divider and just make a new front and code for the other “direction”.
and then the same with v2: so many customers asked for metal-enclousers, because they didn’t trust the orignal ones, that the decision was to make one, but handle it with the limited resources – so no other changes than that and make the settings to be saved (the second most commen customers-wish).
best
olaf – audiowerkstatt