Flame Clockwork Tips and Tricks

via Floppy on the AH list, posted here with permission:

"i got the clockwork for a while now and finally discovered its great features.
first i was disapointed because the manual doesnt mention all of its functions, and its not really selfexplaining. i mailed the guy who made it and he helped me with some advice that can now be read on his homepage
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i use the clockwork mainly for triggering percussive sounds as this machine takes me to completely new patterns! you might know the point where you feel like hacking the same old beat into your tr 6/7/8/9 over and over again wondering if theres still undiscovered patterns hiding under this 16 steps... the easy access to the 3 different rhythm scales (normal 4th, triplets and dotted) and the possibilty to combine them with each other makes it the perfect solution against boring drumloops.

im using an akai mpc as master clock and the clockwork is slave so i can record every drumloop seperately on the mpcs audio input. this method is as tight as possible i think. for some loops i just record single instruments on the combined output of the clockwork, when maximum flexibilty is needed, but its also possible to play a full drumset (4 tracks) and record it at once.

when using analog drumbrains that accept velocity sensitive trigger inputs, i realized that there is another hidden shuffle possibility :
the lenghts of the gate signal can be either very short -that results in a single hit. with a bit of lenght -that gives something like a flame / roll medium lenghts - that results in the exact middle of a beat (offbeat bass) longest gate - this grooves in the opposite of nr. 2 it seems that the end of the gate signal does trigger again but with only half of the velocity. when i discovered this i was already dancing to my clockworks beats, its definately the most groovy unit i ever played with. im thinking of getting a second clockwork soon."

If you have any tips, feel free to comment.