Has anyone tried using the clock in jack to play tracks?
I thought this’d be useful for making polyrhythms, sending trigger out from a TR8S track with 12 steps for example.
However, the trigger in doesn’t advance the sequencer as I might’ve expected (like it does on Roland Boutiques). Instead, it just plays the sample at the pitch it’s been set to on the front panel. This isn’t so useful, and it still plays even when the track is muted.
I’m no expert on using CV, I have some experience using it on some Roland modules and it just works as expected. Maybe there’s something I’m not doing right. It would be a nice feature if the clock-in would trigger the sequencer steps like it does on the JU-06A and SH-01A.
I think that when you set the clock in destination to ‘track’ it can only trigger the sample assigned to the track….so you’d use this option with some sort of rhythmic trigger source like an analogue trigger output from a drum machine rather than a clock source.
But I am interested to understand what happens when you set the destination to clock and 16th notes and then feed in a rhythmic trigger input which isn’t just a sequence of evenly spaced 16ths.
Probably should have asked first - what setting are you using for the clock input?
BTW I am just going from the manual as I don’t have my s2400 yet.
But I am very interested in the range of possibilities for the clock in/outs. Have you tried clocking an external device from the s2400 but using the pulse out on track trigger ie. playing in a sequence on a track and having that be the clock out source
Thought about this a few minutes more and I realised what you want to do -
You want to clock through the sequence of the individual track whilst the s2400 clocks the rest of the sequence with its internal clock.
Well that would be a very cool option! But I doubt they could easily implement such a function.
Imagine 8 clock ins and being able to clock through sequences on say bank A 1-8 from external trigs/clocks……wow! modular heaven (in my imaginary modular setup).
Correct. That’s what the manual says - play any one of the 32 tracks.
So with the TR8S sending rhythmic analogue trigger out and the 2400 clock-in set to trigger a specific track, it just triggers the sample to play. If instead it advanced the sequencer we’d get the sample and all its parameters.
there is one clock and one only - int or ext (via xxx source)
you may be misinterpreting the manual edit on page 69 - i think you are raeding it to say what you want it to - if set to ext clk (via TS in) then you can make tracks ignore the clk but not use them with another clk source be it internal or other
if you want the triggers ala ol school woland i would suggest you fire the particular channels via midi
analogue clk is sending a pulse at a rate set by the master and acknowledged in some way by the slave and either adopts a divider or not to meet criteria - there is no making one trk on the 2400 operate at diff clk rates via analogue - unfortunately unless using midi - midi can solve it for you but you need to do the division in yer ead
Clock In Jack
The 3.5mm clock in and out jacks can be configured for a variety of functions.
Function
Ignored, clock, reset, or it can play any one of the 32 tracks
^from the manual
Clock Source is set to internal, but I’ve set Clock In Jack Function to Track A1 in order to “play one of the 32 tracks”
It works as far as receiving the expected rhythmic triggers from the TR8-S. I was just hoping that by “play” it meant advance the tracks steps and I’d hear my sequenced parameters, pitch and all.
The wording in the manual re the clock input could be interpreted to mean - step through the sequence of notes and parameters on the track. I didn’t get that from it but I can see how someone could.
But what an idea though! Cos if they could implement some way to make any given track a ‘virtual sequencer/track’ and have that track be driven by its own clock source independent of the main internal clock……wow! That would get the attention of the modular world wouldn’t it?!
It could also be a hark back to something AKAI did for the S900, which was an add on 8 jack input card they made that allowed drum triggers, audio sources or modular sequencers to connect direct to the S900 to trig samples… This potentially would be much easier to implement for the S2400 than the separate clocks idea, in fact they already have the code to translate that clock in to a bit of hexadecimal to trig a sample/track.