How to sync sequences on SK-1?

[lazlokovacs]

Can you bend the SK-1 so you can sync it's sequences with other machines? I'm getting the highly liquids SKM Midi retrofit, but from what I understand you can only trigger notes over midi with that retrofit. Is there some way to trigger and sync it's sequences?

[djsynchro]

google "electrifire" sk1

[lazlokovacs]

Thanks but I googled that and variations of it but found nothing...


I have looked around a bit but haven't found much except a post on the http://www.casiosk1.com site:

"No midi is required on a sk1 to sync it to your work. Just use the internal sequencer and then hook up a jack to one of the little sequencer advance buttons under the micro phone. This then advances the sequence by on note each time a trigger signal (or any individual out from a drummachine or metronome or cvgate)"


If I understand correctly that bend wouldn't trigger the sequences to play, but trigger on step at a time with for example cv/gate, but I guess you could just send a signal on every step and the sequence would run just as if it was triggered to play in sync..?

But most important, would that bend work?

[Circuitbenders]

indeed it does work. On the back of the board behind the one key play buttons there are a couple of diodes and some jumper wires. You need to attach a jack socket to one side of one of the diodes and one of the jumpers.

Off the top of my head i can't remember which way round it goes so you'll have to experiment. You might also have to put a resistor in line with the positive trigger signal if the trigger doesn't act very reliably. Every time you send a trigger it'll act as if you pressed the one key play button, then you have to send another trigger to reset the sequence, so if you had a 4 note sequence in a bar you'd have to send the 4 notes triggers and then a reset trigger to make it loop properly.