MC-202 <-> tracker time conversion chart
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:43 am
Posting this up incase it's useful to anyone else: I made a chart that correlates note lengths as entered on the MC-202 sequencer with rows on a tracker. It was only supposed to be a rough guide for myself but during a bored long weekend I went into full doodle mode and this is what happened.
Boring black-on-white version for printing (A5 size)
Done entirely in erasable ball-point pen on graph paper, so it's warm & gritty & analog, hah. Row numbers on the left (1-16) are assumed to be 16th notes.
I've been playing around with the MC-202 sequencer a lot - it's notoriously described as 'too complicated' or 'too intense' to use but I don't find that at all. If you can program a 606 or a x0xb0x you can program this thing, it's actually pretty straightforward. Mine has a pretty common CV/Gate input mod done but you can't put 303-style porta & accents on notes that way so I don't use it much.
I managed to get it to sync to a PC by synthesizing the tape signal and playing that through an audio out, no MIDI-DIN sync converter needed. I have it working in Schism Tracker but the same method will work just fine with Buzz. Still a few bugs to be worked out but I'll post more on that little project soon.
Boring black-on-white version for printing (A5 size)
Done entirely in erasable ball-point pen on graph paper, so it's warm & gritty & analog, hah. Row numbers on the left (1-16) are assumed to be 16th notes.
I've been playing around with the MC-202 sequencer a lot - it's notoriously described as 'too complicated' or 'too intense' to use but I don't find that at all. If you can program a 606 or a x0xb0x you can program this thing, it's actually pretty straightforward. Mine has a pretty common CV/Gate input mod done but you can't put 303-style porta & accents on notes that way so I don't use it much.
I managed to get it to sync to a PC by synthesizing the tape signal and playing that through an audio out, no MIDI-DIN sync converter needed. I have it working in Schism Tracker but the same method will work just fine with Buzz. Still a few bugs to be worked out but I'll post more on that little project soon.