Connecting the EM-1, ER-1, EA-1 and ES-1 all together

The K · Post by **The K** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:36 am

Hi,

I have the set of the original electribes (EM-1, ER-1, EA-1 and ES-1) and have played around a bit with each one but not had time to do much more. Is there (and if so how) is the best way to connect them all up to each other.

I have heard of ppl using the em-1 to drive the ea-1 or ea-1 to filter the er-1 but I want to go for the whole lot.

cello · Post by **cello** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:45 am

Yes - you can string them together (I use to have a similat set-up!)

You do it with midi. (worth reading up about it in general on wiki if you don't know about it).

But basically, you need to decide which one is your master for clock rates, etc. In the midi section of that machine select master.

Then connect midi leads from the out of the master to the in of the next machine, then from the out that one until you feed in to the last machine.

On all the other machines set them to slave or at least 'not' master (not in front of mine just now so can't remember!)

Then whatever you play on all machines it will be clock-synched with the master machine.

Hope that helps get you started.

Welcome to KF

The K · Post by **The K** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:14 am

Thanks cello,

Im ok with the MIDI side of things and selecting master & slave.

Yeah Im just trying to decide which one should be the master and drive the others.

radiatesky · Post by **radiatesky** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:09 pm

The sampler first. More dependent on tempo being exact to play samples correctly.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:57 am

Well, unless you're using timeslices then samples aren't really dependant on tempo usually.

Anyway, you're right. I would go with ES1 first, then In to the ER1 and Thru to the EA1.

Personally if you're building things from scratch I would leave them on the same channel but disable recipt of notes and controllers, so that changing the patch on one of them will change the patch on the others too, so you can easily build up different sections of song. You may prefer to work differently but that's how I would do it.

robosardine · Post by **robosardine** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:30 pm

You could get a little midi splitter box quite cheap. Keeps everything perfectly in time.

radiatesky · Post by **radiatesky** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:50 pm

Any sample (other than very short ones) will be dependent on tempo.... Program a longer sample that loops perfectly (every quarter beat, for instance), then change the tempo: slow it down and there is a pause, speed it up and it hits too early.
Slicing does not necessarily remedy the problem either.
Sampler as tempo master: MIDI box splitter would help.