From tmoravan@netcom.com Tue Mar 19 08:44:16 1996
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	id CAA19957; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 02:49:45 -0800
From: tmoravan@netcom.com (Tom Moravansky)
Subject: Re: sync boxes
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 02:49:45 -0800 (PST)
Cc: analogue@hyperreal.com

> > Basically, if you have a nono-trivial amount of gear to sync up, the
> 
> what do you mean by this?!
> 
that should be non-trivial.   What I meant was that the SBX-10 (and -80)
are designed as sync boxes from the ground up.  They are not sequencers
or drum machines that happen to do conversion.  The SBX-10 has 2 MIDI outs,
2 DIN sync outs, 2 trigger outs, a metronome out (pulse generator can be
used for some other controller).  If you just have 1 piece of non-MIDI gear 
and you want to sync it up, the SBX boxes are probably overkill.  If you
have MIDI, analog sequencers, DIN stuff, and more and need to have a common
clock, the SBX boxes will do the trick.  Korg made a converter called the
KMS-30 which also does conversion between the common formats.  The SBX-10
also has a tempo knob and display, so it could be used as the master clock
pretty easily.  My only (small) gripe is that the SBX doesn't have a
stop/continue button, just start and stop.

> > SBX-10 becomes very useful (and easier to find than the infamous Garfield
> > MasterBeat).  The bigger brother SBX-80 adds SMPTE, but loses some other
> > features.
> 
> the who what? im amazed that ive never heard of this and i thought i'd 
> heard of just about almost everything!
> 
there's lots of things out there that you'd want to buy if you knew about
them, that's why they're not discussed.  We hate to fuel the gear lust. :-) :-)

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Tom Moravansky                                              tmoravan@netcom.com