Question about Korg SQ-1/ Pocket Operator/ iPad/ Eurorack syncing … may be dumb/newb question but I’ve done the research I could and hey maybe someone else will find the answer.
I have the makings of a great portable setup around my small eurorack. (Aside from my normal mode where I’m at the desk with Analog 4 and use midi and so on.)
Re: SQ-1 sync out and eurorack CV inputs
I believe I can do the following sync flow
- iPad with a click on one channel (using SyncKontrol or just a manual thing), → PO Tonic [confirmed works]
- [Any number of POs]
- PO output (sync mode with 1 channel sync, 1 channel audio (sum of iPad and PO(s))), → split to send its sync to SQ-1 sync in, audio to my ext. line-in on the rack [or of course, both PO and rack audio to external mixer]
- [SQ-1 CVs for pitch and gate go into modules, as usual.]
- (Configure SQ-1 Sync global parameters; I believe just the change from 1v to 5v, leave polarity at default. Korg SQ-1 manual documents the Global Parameters for Polarity change of sync, changing the Sync voltage is an undocumented option, link1 link2 )
- SQ-1 sync out to…
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This is my uncertainty
- I have some Clock or Ping inputs on some modules, which are supposed to receive eurorack-level CV. Their manuals are not specific about safe external input levels/polarity but, maybe because the answer is obvious and I am just oblivious
- Is it safe for the modules, to send SQ-1 Sync straight in to these eurorack-level/CV inputs?
- Or should I instead send the SQ-1 sync to one channel of the external line-in (since I have 2 channels and only one is being used by PO’s output, mono in this setup)… to alter its voltage that way… and send THAT to CV clock/ping input(s)?
- (Or — should I do 1 or 2, and then it goes into Ears audio in to follow as audio, and then Ears gate out to act like “clock” to those inputs? (I doubt this one just checking my assumptions…))
(Also curious if anyone knows … Alternative that I dismissed but have not tried: iPad → PO → SQ-1, iPad → SQ-1 → PO → rack, but PO sync out cannot be configured as the SQ-1 sync can be configured (see link above). and PO sync is audio whereas SQ-1 sync is more CV safe, right?)