RYTM and acme 4 ....problems

NonLocationalObject · 2015-02-09T11:32:29.000Z

Clocking the rytm from the acme 4 works great untill you turn the swing knob then the timing goes all over the place.

Got it clocking from the second clock output, this first is going to my 808 which works perfectly.

Is there something you need to do to get it to work with the swing applied ? if anyone else has one working please let me know.

thanks

Zillamatic · 2015-02-09T14:34:20.000Z

Would it work if you gave it an unswung clock, then you apply swing to the pattern using the Rytm’s build in sing function?

NonLocationalObject · 2015-02-09T14:51:35.000Z

yep that works, but would prefer to have the acme 4 working with the rytm properly

REOvolt · 2015-02-11T08:36:59.000Z

This is a known problem and I already asked for a firmware update two times at Elektron support. The A4 suffers from the same problem. It doesn’t respond well to external swing and if you swing it to much the sequencer stops playing. It has something to do with the way it responds to clock pulses. The Octatrack wouldn’t even sync, but that’s solved now as I requested this to be fixed. They had close contact with the company behind the ACME and fixed it in an update. I asked for the same kind of fix for the A4 and the Rytm, but as of yet no luck. The Machinedrum works fine BTW.

PS. The Roland TR-8 wouldn’t react to swing and keep a steady beat. probably to correct sloppy midi timing (not a bad idea actually). But in a recent update they changed this behavior and now it does react to external swing (and you can use it’s own swing also, so a lot of fun to mix different swing patterns.

NonLocationalObject · 2015-02-11T10:56:48.000Z

Thanks for the info

switchbox · 2015-02-11T12:17:12.000Z

try to reduce the pulses in the settings. i’m not in front but i think 14 is standart…try 9-11 or so…or put swingpot to max and reduce the pulses until its not dropping out…also enable mpc-mode and see if it helps.