Timing specs/precision

[FlavioB]

Hi all!
Would it be possible to share the timing measurements for this unit's routing function?
Like sending a pure MIDI clock signal (please check with an oscilloscope that it is *very* neat!) and then measure on the MIDI outputs how the signal looks like (delay, jitter, ripple, ground noise/offset, voltage and current).
I'm struggling in finding such a MIDI router which really does not deteriorate too much the MIDI clock signal...

Thanks,
F.

Yomanfree, thanks for sharing that link to the Kickstarter post. That's what I would have shared.

We will publish some new Latency and Jitter specs when we are about done with development.

I can't tell by your message what is the specific problem you are trying to solve. Is it latency and jitter? What is the symptom? That is, how do you know there is latency and jitter, can you hear it? If you can hear it, its bad   I assume you are using 5 Pin DIN and not USB since you asked about electrical characteristics of the MIDI outputs?

Hi Darryl - sorry for not replying earlier, I completely lost track of this!
So I am not trying to solve any kind of problem - yet :-) The whole thing started last year, at our annual synthesizer jam meeting -->

http://www.metunar.ch/st/st2019_nov.html

We had tremendous troubles with time synchronization between the participants and we tried to use different hardware for "sharing" the MIDI clock signal.
After that session, one of the participants suggested to measure the equipment and classify it on behalf of how good/bad the incoming MIDI clock signal gets sent out.

So we started measuring different equipment, based off a very clean MIDI clock signal. Cirklon, MOTU MIDI Express, Beatstep Pro and some other I don't recall anymore.
We've seen that the Beatstep Pro introduces the most ripple, the signal is not nicely square but it gets "rounded" and there's also jitter (this is the only one I remember the most details of, because it is *my* unit).

So yes, I was using 5-pin DIN MIDI connections - no USB there.

I've read about your measurements and they seem to be quite good indeed! Maybe I'll somewhen grab one of your units (as of now, I'm using Cirklon as master clock and 2x MIDITEMP MP-88 for distribution).

F.