E-RM aims to do this for your MIDI, DIN and analog pulse sync gear, by providing their singular clock tech to accurately marry all your gear, no matter what the vintage. When setup correctly, the results can be striking, just see our Black Lion Audio Microclock III review to learn more. For example, sophisticated studios all employ a single, dedicated Word Clock generator to accurately lock digital gear, which depends on sample accurate data. This is very important to understand and if you’re familiar with Word Clock, the concept is similar. E-RM states that it “guarantees absolutely tight clock signals with ☑ sample of jitter” and our reviewers found the Multiclock did maintain a “stable and reliable sync, even when burdened with multiple devices running different sync tech.” E-RM achieves this by delivering its timing via Audio Sync Track, instead of a MIDI Clock signal, thus when installed in your kit, the Multiclock becomes the de facto clocking source, not your DAW. The MRSP is 449 e for the standard version, 519 e with USB.Ī matching power supply is naturally included.Ĭolorful caps for all knobs are available on request.The Multiclock builds on E-RM’s first product, the Midiclock, in several ways, but the core competency of providing solid MIDI Clock, DIN Sync (Sync24) and analog clock pulses is where everything begins. Multiclock will be available from May 2015. So yes, it’ll be great to evaluate these claims in performance. I can also tell you E-RM are obsessive about quality and sustainable production. And it could change the way machines in your studio arrive in time. 449€ is a hefty price, but … it could be the last sync/clock device you ever buy. A “MIDI Map & Merge Matrix” lets you route and merge MIDI notes and control messages over MIDI or USB to particular outputs.Į-RM is a neighbor of mine – in Berlin and this week at Messe – so I’m curious to give this a try. I can really imagine dialing in something more life-like and human with this. That can allow you to fine-tune sync or even create your own grooves. You can tweak timing on everything – each channel has two knobs for shifting and shuffling. This is all fine and well, but I think it’s the adjustment that makes this interesting. Or, of course, the multiclock – like the midiclock+ before it – can simply be your stable clock source for everything else. If you really must use a USB MIDI connection, fine – that works. You can use clock signals from analog modular gear. So you can use MIDI or DIN (from more reliable MIDI gear that isn’t a computer, that is). You still retain the versatility to use what you want. That’s my explanation, not E-RM’s, so I hope they approve. Remember when you could use a phone to tell what time it was? A lady’s voice would intone from the other end, “the time is now… 7:45 and 33 seconds pm.” Think of a MIDI stream as giving you those time indications a little irregularly – not quite on the right tick – and an audio stream giving times that are always exactly correct, many times per second (44,100 times per second for a regular CD audio setting, for instance). That allows you to use a computer as a clock source without some of the nastiness that can often ensue. Whereas MIDI and MIDI over USB from a computer are inherently susceptible to jitter, E-RM claims that the audio synchronization gives them sample-to-sample accuracy. The most important thing to know about the multiclock is that it takes this obsession with getting sync right directly to your computer’s audio card. Just announced, the multiclock is the follow-up to the midiclock+, the clever MIDI sync box introduced by Berlin’s boutique E-RM Erfindungsbüro back in 2012. But the E-RM multiclock claims to do it even with a computer as the clock source – without jittering. We’ve seen boxes that claim to sync everything you have to everything else you have.
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