Dillhole-level hardware MIDI routing question

[Dave]

Ok, I guess 1982 is as advanced my mind gets with cutting edge midi technology. I’ve got 2 god damned midi cables. I want to send RX11 clock to my R3 AS WELL AS keyboard from my 106.

Here’s what I’m attempting-

RX11 midi out -> 106 midi through

106 midi out -> R3 midi in

However the R3 does not appear to be receiving RX11 clock. I’m assuming I just don’t actually understand midi through/any fucking thing, but regardless I’m not sure how to send 2 midi signals into that R3 from independent sources.

The shitty R3 is programmed for an arpeggiated bass in the lower octave and all I want is for it to arpeggiate locked to the tempo of the shitty RX11 but I’m too shitty at synths to play 2 separate keyboards, so I want to play Juno’s nice bigass 61 key setup.

[Telliot]

Forgive me for asking the obvious, but do you have your midi clocks set to ‘in’ on the R3 and Juno, and ‘send’ on the RX11? Does the RX11 have a clock out, or does it only send midi notes?

[Dave]

Clock set to external midi on R3
Juno doesn’t really have a bpm clock so I guess no?
RX11 sends clock by default, though it also triggers notes with each drum beat which I don’t know how to disable.

[Telliot]

Do you have the manual for the RX11? On pg 26 it explains different sync functions, including clock out.

[Telliot]

Any luck?

[Dave]

I re-arranged it in a more logical way with partial success-

Juno 106 midi out-> R3 midi in-> R3 midi out -> RX11 midi in

Then I set RX-11 for external clock and let the arpeggiator on the R3 dictate tempo.

It sort of worked but it wouldn’t quantize my arpeggiated bass so if I happened to trigger the low note slightly off tempo it would just take off out of time. If I control R3’s tempo with RX11’s clock that doesn’t happen, I set arpeggiator to 1/8ths and it quantizes it for me so it’s locked mint. That’s why I’d like to let the RX dictate timing and Juno dictate note information, somehow simultaneously.