That is why I like one clock to rule them all. But i have tried syncing in the software before and I had issues. Anyone have suggestions for FOSS or at least free alternative that supports easy routing. Its 'open source' now insomuch as the code is on Github, but there is zero active development. Jealous you have the Polyend btw!! It's on the wishlist for sure. Well, now that MidiPipe has been updated to support Catalina, one of my only remaining stumbling blocks is Midi Patchbay, which hasn't been updated since 2008. It's already quickly turning into spaghetti back there haha. Any kind of splitter will probably only output 5-pin, so some devices might need 3 cables connected instead of 2 (or 1 if they're bus-powered). I have considered hardware, but the problem then becomes cabling. So if one device is 10ms out, another 14, another isn't out of time at all, no problem. Each clock destination has its own MIDI offset setting. I can definitely see how it has the potential to cause problems but yeah, as in my reply above, Live seems to have it sussed out. Currently, I sync my BeatStep Pro, TS 10, Microfreak, Polybrute, metropolix, Crave, Polyend Poly 2m, system-8, TR-8. Let the splitter receive clock then distribute it your devices. This leads to an increased risk of train wrecks. compensating for latency with one device is easy, but when the devices have different latency it becomes more challenging. The issue of sending out multiple clocks is latency. I am not saying it cannot be done, but please hear me out. Also I don’t want to have to configure every device I put in/take out of the chain to talk to everything else. *Edit: also I’m aware MIDI thru exists! But not all my synths have it. On the same note, anyone know a way around this? Like a program I can use as an alternative to Reason as the clock master to send to multiple 5-pin and USB MIDI destinations? But I’m literally having to work in Live right now. It’s the natural environment to do it in. I’d *much* rather sequence, record and process my hardware in Reason. I’m working with an increasing amount of hardware these days (just got a Neutron, TR-6S, Deepmind 12, Microfreak) and in Live I’m able to send MIDI clock to all of them. I'm just gonna have to learn to love it in the meantime.Īs in the title. Pity I don't like much else about Live haha. Live implements this really well, and I like the ability to offset each sync destination by its own value too. Either everything was playing at the wrong division, or it would only advance the sequencer on one when a note was triggered on the other. Yeah I tried just doing this between one Volca and the Microfreak and it was just impossible. So, yes, much easier to do it all with MIDI. It's really easy to end up with one synth running at twice or half the speed of the others and sometimes the sync output only runs when that synth is playing a sequencer or arp. Unless all your synths by the same manufacturer this can quickly turn into a proper ball ache as you grapple with signal levels/polarity and with the different ways of expressing the clock rate divider: 1PPS, 2PPQ, 24PPQN, 2 per step etc In the past I have experimented with sending MIDI clock to one synth and then using the sync connector on the synth to pass on the clock to other synths. I can't imagine it's that hard to implement.
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