Re: EH 2880 Question

["Jeff Duke" <echohead@embarqmail.com>]

Mine does not do that but it used to drift out of sync until the software update. Also I always run it in Quantize when syncing to midi either master or slave. Here is what the upgrade notes say :

 

QUANTIZED LOOPING WHEN 2880 IS MIDI CLOCK SLAVE

When the 2880 has EXT. CLOCK enabled and is therefore the MIDI Clock slave to another device, a fix has been made when Quantize mode is ON. If your MIDI master is continually sending MIDI Clock with MIDI Song Position Pointer data, the 2880 will read the MIDI SPP data and always start recording its loop on beat 1, as long as Quantize is set to on. It will also always end the loop recording on beat 1 of a bar so that the loop lengths are always x number of bars in length. This allows the user to more easily make loops that will be in sync with their MIDI master.

peace, Jeff

----- Original Message -----

From: Simon Birds

To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:57 AM

Subject: EH 2880 Question

Hi all,

 

This is my first post to this list although I've been reading it on and off for a while now.

 

Although there is lots of info in the archives on the Electro Harmonix 2880 and its behaviour, I can't work out whether the behaviour I'm seeing on my unit is 'normal' so I thought I'd run it past the list to see if anyone else has seen the same thing.

 

When I'm syncing my 2880 to midi my unit randomly does that whole speeding up/slowing down tape effect thing without warning. From what I've read this would be expected if I'd just recorded the first loop but my unit does this even when I've recorded onto three tracks and stopped/restarted the master. eg. I currently have all 4 tracks recorded , the master and 2880 are stopped. If I start the master (and the 2880 starts as well) both will play along happily  for a while and then without warning the 2880 will do the tape effect speed up and then settle down again (usually in time but out of position/sync).

 

Anyone else see this strange behaviour ?   

 

Also, does anyone know exactly what sync issues the firmware update fixed ?

 

Any comments appreciated...

 

Cheers

 

Simon

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