Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How to sync a Behringer RD-8 and MS-101/ MS-1 (updated)”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to Malta, music technology. Now you’ve got your rd8. You’Ve got your MS 101 you’re about to have the most amazing acid rave party of your life, and all you need to know is how did you get the two to run together? You got your sequence and you got your patent. You could use tap tempo course, so there’s a better way doing it. You can sync the two there’s two methods of syncing: it ones analog clock, the other one is MIDI clock, and so this is a very quick video just to show you how to get those two things working and if you saw my previous video on this you’ll Know that I completely stuffed it up and I’d like to to thank all of you out there, who pointed out the schoolboy errors that I was making with my MIDI clock, demonstration or lack thereof, and so for this one with this do-over.
I think I’ve got it right, but if I haven’t please let me know in the comments and we can all have a bit of a learning experience the best and easiest way to do. This is with a patch cable, using analog clock. It’S using clock out from the rd8 to clock the MS 101. All you need is a patch cable. It’S just a mini jack cable goes into the back clock out on the rd8 to external clock in on the MS 101 image, when a one doesn’t have a clock out, so you can only do it this way around.
Now, if I put the MS 101 into play, it’ll sit there waiting for a clock hit play on the Rd 8 and the 2 will run beautifully together. Yeah not quite not quite because the rd8 by default is set up to kick out 24 pulses per coordinate. That means every quarter.
Note has 24 pulses racketing out the back here straight into the MS 101. That’S going! Oh my god! Oh, my god doesn’t quite know what to do. Well, it does it clocks to 24 pulses per quarter note, and so is going like the clappers. So we need to calm that down a little bit. You do that by going to settings clock, press the tap, hold button to get to analog clock and then use the data wheel to turn that down to something a bit more sensible, like one pulse for instance, and then see how that sounds. Maybe two, maybe four is more your thing. You then in full control of the tempo. Now they missed 101 doesn’t have any form of clock division in at least as far as I can see so turning the tempo here or have no effect.
It can only be driven by the clock. That’S coming out of the RV 8 analog clocking. It’S simple! It’S easy: it’s just a cable and works really really well. You can of course, clock it from other places if you’ve got other gear, this generates a clock.
You can stuff that into both of them independently, simple, easy, versatile job done. Second option is to use a MIDI cable, first of all, from the rd8 to the MS 101, go to the back, plug this into MIDI out plug the other end into MIDI. In on the MS 101 and off you go except there’s something odd going on, because the sequence has changed it. Wasn’T there sequence, it was something else now change again, and again I mean is interesting, is change it to more interesting sequence and warred programmed in? But the point is that MIDI from the rd8 is affecting the MS 101, because they’re both got meat either both got MIDI implemented, and so this throws MIDI out. This accepts MIDI. So while this connection for synchronization is awesome, you’ve also got there’s other MIDI information to contend with.
So how do we get around that? Well, the reason that this is happening is because the MIDI out on the rd8 is set to the same channel as the MS 101 by default. So we can sort that out by going to settings midi midi in press this once to get to midi out, see that set to channel 1. You turn this to channel 10, which is more usually what drums find themselves on. Then this is kicking out on MIDI channel 10. This is set by default at MIDI, channel 1 they’re not going to interfere with each other, but the MIDI clock will keep on going.
So now shouldn’t change the sequence. However, our sequins are still a bit weird. So if we unplug MIDI for a second see if we can get our sequence back, there we go. One added bonus of the MIDI connection is that you do have a little bit of clock division with the tempo, not so the fully clockwise position. It’S as we expected to be able to bring Brett about three o’clock and then cuts that tempo down exactly first doing that by design or not.
I don’t have any idea, but it seems to do something or other. You can also do this the other way round. So use the MS 101 as the master, and this is the slave, but I found that’s not work quite so well, but let’s show you anyhow, so you change the MIDI out here. So this is now sending the MIDI out set to Midian on the our d8.
You need to set the synchronization which is here to MIDI and then on the MS 101. You want to enable MIDI clock now you do that in the little synthesizer app from behringer, which is this this fellow here and you download this from the behringer site, connect them as 101 via USB, and you go to MIDI clock out on the general settings. Enable then this will send midi clock so, as I turn the tempo knob here, you can see that it’s responding on the rd8, so you know that it’s getting the information now you can hear some drum sounds in there. This isn’t actually playing what you’re getting is the MS 101 six or seven playing notes in the rd8? Again it’s because of the MIDI settings. This is kicking out on MIDI channel one. If we go to settings MIDI MIDI in is set to all.
So you don’t want that. You want to set that down to ten again because that’s the percussion channel there we go it’s no longer playing the sounds in the Rd eight, but it’s also it hasn’t started in the Rd eight. Now, I’m not entirely sure why this is. I would have expected by pressing play on the MS 101.
Now that would have sent a MIDI start message out and the rhythm designer would have picked that up. I would have started, but it doesn’t appear to it’s. Certainly in sync and ready, but I have to start it independently.
Simile was stopped. You know if it’s in pause. I thought that might be it now, so all in all, it’s probably better to have the rd8 as the master.
As far as midi sync is concerned, although it can work both ways, it’s just smarter. If it comes from the rd8 into here. Obviously you can sync from ad or you can sync from elsewhere. You can sync in a hundred different ways in getting midi information to it or analog clock to it, but in terms of a simple acid party setup, with these two devices use your analog clock, that’s the simplest way all use MIDI coming from the rd8 to the Ms 101, and that will do the job. I hope that was helpful and, in the meantime, go make some tunes. .