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[pizzapal]

Hi from Indiana. I found this site today because I was looking up how to change the analog clock setting on the drumbrute using Arturia's MIDI control software using WINE. Didn't have much luck, but was lucky to find this site

I'm not much of a musician but I play guitar and bass a little and also some analog synthesizers (KORG MS-20 mini & SQ-1 + some eurorack modules).

Most of the music stuff I do is analog and hardware-based, but I like GNU/Linux and BSD a lot. I have been trying to learn more about free/libre audio drivers, ADC/DAC, and PCM stuff that is available on these systems and also with microcontrollers like Arduino as well as 8-bit computers like the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.

[Michael Willis]

Hey @pizzapal! Some of my relatives have recently moved to the midwest, I might travel your direction some day soon.

I took a brief look at the Drumbrute. It looks like you might be able to use a different midi sequencer to control it, like Hydrogen or QTractor or something. When you connect it to your computer via the USB cable, run this terminal command and look for a line in the output that corresponds with your drumbrute device:

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lsusb

For example, when I have my m-audio midi piano plugged in, I see this among many other USB devices:

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Bus 003 Device 010: ID 0763:0015 M-Audio Hammer 88

[pizzapal]

Thanks Michael! The midwest can be quite pleasant when there's not a heat wave or a blizzard or a torrential downpour or a tornado.

I wasn't even trying to use Arturia's "MIDI Control Center" to do any actual MIDI controlling of the drumbrute: I was trying to change the analog clock output resolution to be 2ppqn for use with my KORG stuff. The default setting is 24ppqn, so the first time I tried patching it into my sequencer, the tempo was like 1000 BPM And it happens that the only way to change this setting is by using the MIDI Control Center software.

I don't think that Hydrogen (I don't know about QTractor) supports configuring MIDI settings in the controlled device. It would be cool to reverse engineer that part of the interface to get a *nix compatible thing going...

[Michael Willis]

The midwest can be quite pleasant when there's not a heat wave or a blizzard or a torrential downpour or a tornado.

I wasn't even trying to use Arturia's "MIDI Control Center" to do any actual MIDI controlling of the drumbrute: I was trying to change the analog clock output resolution to be 2ppqn for use with my KORG stuff.

Oh I see. If it's just a one-time setup, you might find somebody who runs windows and use their computer to do it. Sometimes these kinds of things work in Wine, sometimes not.