MIDI Clock Send via CTRLR

[OMT]

Is there a way to implement a host>device MIDI Clock? or somehow sync the VST instance itself to the DAW Tempo and send a clock message to the device? Messing around with my Volcas this is the only thing I found I couldn’t figure out for myself using CTRLR 🙂 maybe even create an internal tempo synced LFO and connect it to various parameters?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Love this thing BTW, very intuitive and reliable so far!

[dasfaker]

The way we do it right now is using a virtual midi port where is sent combined the panel data and the midi clock signal.

[atom]

Or if you can generate MIDI Clock in the host and send that to Ctrlr, it will go through with the MIDI THRU option. There is no way to generate MIDI CLOCK from VST sync events, it’s not impossible it’s just not implemented (yet?)

[OMT]

Is it possible to elaborate about each of the options (If its not too hard/time consuming of course 🙂 )? I saw the MidiClock option in the drop down menu of the various parameters, is it not for this option?

[atom]

This option is just to send MidiClock messages from sliders/buttons/combos whatever by hand if needed. But you should not send MidiClock (or any other realtime) messages from Ctrlr UI components (or Lua), since this is the UI thread, you will not be able to get realtime priority for those messages and you will fuck up sync. To do this right it needs to be done in the Audio thread of the plugin, or the MIDI thread of the standalone app.

[OMT]

I think I’ll just send audio outputs with MIDI sync pulse from the DAW, I thought there has to be a better way, but maybe in the future (?)

[dasfaker]

I’ll explain the option of the virtual midi ports.

This is if your midi interface is no multi-client. In this case, both Ctrlr and the daw can’t open the port to communicate with your hardware.

So this is how I do it on Windows:
Ctrlr Input Port -> Virtual port 1
Ctrlr Output Port – > Virtual port 2
Daw sending Midi Clock to port -> Virtual port 2

Midi OX Routing
Midi interface OUT port -> Virtual port 1
Virtual port 2 -> Midi interface IN port

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