checking instruments during building

Thank you very much Vincent, that last explanation was very helpful.

I was able to check all my (so far) built instruments (BD, SD, LT, MT, HT) -- and alas! they all work!

what a relief...!

Such encouragement...!

I finished bass drum this evening and of course I wanted to see if it works.

So I've pulled out my arduino nano and uploaded code to it. My led is blinking as expected (1ms pulse than wait for a second) but i don't get pulse out on pin. I can hear a bass drum trigger once when i connect a wire to a pin but afterwards i don't hear anything.
What can be wrong?

Thanks!

Dear verggaet,

DId you connect bassdrum trig to 5v and common trig to Arduino pin 8 with using this code ?

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    int ledPin = 8;               

    void setup()
    {
      pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);      // sets the digital pin as output
    }

    void loop()
    {
      digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);   // sets the pin on
      delay(1);                  // waits for a millisecond
      digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);    // sets the pin off
      delay(1000);                  // waits for a second
    }

Best regards,
e-licktronic

oh yes got it working, forgot the 5v

Man BD sounds so nice!

Yes, i got sound! First three voices triggered from the accent trigger of my DR 110
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzpv-Fh_-fc[/video]

Edit: I created a test plug to put into the IC5 socket in order to easily test the individual instruments before the sequencer is finished. Pin 8 is useless here.

Great Job !!!

Thx vincent, one little question: i didn't seem to be able to put the trigger on the instrument trigs and the 5v on the common trigger rail.
Should it be possible to trigger individual instruments by sending trigger to the common trigger and the individual trigger at the same time?

e-licktronic wrote:
Would the Trig Out from my Arp Odyssey or Gate out from my SH101 work as a trigger signal?
I don't know polarity of ARP odyssey trig out but if it's positive trig out it should work but not the SH101 gate out.

best regards,
e-licktronic

Can you tell me why the 101 gate won't work? I think it's a 5 volt v trigger.

I try to use a tr606 and that should work. It's also a 5 volt v trigger. But it doesn't.

Thanks!

I don't know about the SH-101.

But i had a look at the Tr-606 manual and according to that, the trigger outs on the 606 gives a pulse of 15Volt and 20 milliseconds long.
So that's a Voltage 3 times higher and stays up 20 times longer than what we need.

*edit
The SH-101 gate out is 0Volt when OFF and ON is 10Volt at a load of 100kOhm so that's too much aswell. Have a look at page 56 of the user manual.

ikke wrote:I don't know about the SH-101.

But i had a look at the Tr-606 manual and according to that, the trigger outs on the 606 gives a pulse of 15Volt and 20 milliseconds long.
So that's a Voltage 3 times higher and stays up 20 times longer than what we need.

*edit
The SH-101 gate out is 0Volt when OFF and ON is 10Volt at a load of 100kOhm so that's too much aswell. Have a look at page 56 of the user manual.

Thanks again Ikke! Do you think a to too high voltage could damage anything?

But I have to check what kind of gear i have that supply the right trigger.

i think my arp axxe delivers +10 volts. But that should also be to high.

I also go a Boss dr 55. Which i think may have the right trigger but i have to look that up.