Midi Clock to Bus Ctrl

All sequencer modules have a clock output and you can use a multiple to copy clock signals if you need more than one. The Bus Ctrl is wired to MIDI CC 20, so it's probably not feasible to DIY some re-routing on certain modules. However, since you can get clock from the bus connectors, a DIY module which just outputs all bus signals is easy to do.

actually this would be useful for most of the bus signals... 
Ive before wished that I could feed a signal on to the bus gate, bus cv, bus ctrl to just pass them around the AEM with wires.


perhaps just a single switch on the master module which turns midi bus off? ideally still leaving the signal on the master module outputs if you want to pick them up there.
(or i guess dip switches like racklink, but that seems a bit excessive) 

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hmm, this gives me a crazy idea.... Ive always like the idea of the make noise cases with its central bus.

i wonder if the central bar on a two row case, could be altered to contain a set of headers that are connected down the length?
the header pins look narrow enough, so the main difficultly is feeding the eight wires between the each set of header pins, without fouling the modules
doing this potentially really tidy up some patches, and make the long cables less necessary.

(that said, I probably should look at rearranging my rack again, and see if I can distributes the mults a little better) 

or perhaps this is something for Robert to consider for a future case design?

not quite sure where you are putting the headers?
are you proposing to put the headers at each end, so just prevent cables from having to run the full length of the case? 

another thought I've had, is im getting an additional 1 row rack... 
and Im thinking about how to connect these, and if I might create some kind of mounting frame, 
if so that could potentially have this 'bus' mounted on it i.e. external to the AE racks.

hmm, of course doing that, starts to make you wonder about using it also to link (i.e. bus) racks or even the racklink connector...

all food for thought  

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so bringing it back to original topic, does seem there is a desire to use a control bus to keep wires tidy.

though I will say, I think AEM is already much better than eurorack for this, since there are so many modules with mults built in.