Behringer RD-8 & MS-1 Jam - How to Trigger the MS-1 with the RD-8 

No prob. Patch one of the three trigger out ports from the RD-8 (the third i think is the rim shot - the one I use in the vid - although with the update you can assign any of the drums to any of the ports I believe. I just left it on the default setting) to the external clock in on the MS-1. That way every rim shot in a pattern you create will trigger the MS-1 to advance one step when either the MS-1’s arp (on hold for hands free) or sequencer is running. So the rim shot acts as an external clock tigger basically. You’ll need either a cable that has a 1/4” mono jack on one end and a 3.5mm mono jack on the other (or a mono 1/4” to 3.5mm adapter)

Got it going, had to enable trigger using the Synthtribe app. Now I think my RD8 is banging out too many pulses! 😂

@@mancavemusician if you have, say, 4 rim shots (or whatever drum you are using to trigger your MS-1) to a 1 bar pattern and are (for example) pressing a three note chord on your ms-1 while in arp mode, you will have 1 extra rim shot per looping bar/1 more rim shots than notes, so the looping arp will be syncopated (not repeat in time to the time signature, eg. 4/4). It might be that, that’s what is going on when you say the RS-8 is banging out too many triggers? Try making sure you have an equal amount of rim shots per bar / drum triggers and notes on the MS-1s arp or sequencer. So 4 notes and 4 drum triggers (or 4 notes and 8 triggers if you wanted the pattern /arp to loop twice per bar/pattern). Or is it not sending out the same amount of triggers as drum Triggers programmed to a pattern? Eg 4 rim shots per looping one bar pattern? If so is beat repeat on or something? But the more likely and obvious thing would be the equal notes to triggers per looping pattern I described above. Also - I never had to enable trigger in the synth tribe app. What exactly did the option say in the synthtribe app?

@@ZvookUK thanks for that makes perfect sense re triggers. In Synthtribe app (for MS1) there is an option for clock mode, gives options like trigger, gate, midi and auto. Unless I set it to trigger it doesn't work.

@@mancavemusician Right - I wasn’t aware of that. There must have been another update recently - I’ll have to check and update my RD-8 (unless the old defaults stayed the same despite the update I did - which, thinking about it may have been the case, as I had to delete all the existing blank patterns and songs on my RD-8 for the new default pattern settings to take effect). That’s good that we can select gate mode too - so we can use the trigger out as a gate as well as a trigger, which throws up all sorts of other possibilities… I’ll have to make a new video!

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@@dpalaoro yes

The external input

You’ll just need to check it’s got the lastest firmware and update it. If you need to do that then you’ll need to erase patterns before you start writing them as it’ll have certain settings on as default until it’s erased. It’s not a big issue, just a habit you need to get into - just because the pattern is blank won’t mean it’s ready to get written to, as things like chance percentage will be set as “on” on default. Once it’s erased you’ll be good to go. You could probably erase the whole song just once (for each song). That’s probably a quicker way to go about it (rather than erase individual patterns).