I’ve an MC6 Pro and various pedals/equipment some have midi clock sync, some midi but no midi clock sync and some non midi pedals which have TRS control.
I have have been able to set up a tap tempo preset on the MC6 Pro to set the tempo across all devices via a mix of midi clock, external tap via relay switching and tap via CC# message. All works when tapping tempo on the MC6 Pro.
I have also been able to utilise a pedal midi clock as master and use the MC6 Pro to send a relay switching sync clock 8 taps message to non midi pedal via the relay port.
My question, is it possible to do the equivalent of sync clock 8 taps to a midi cc# so the non-midi clock recieving midi pedals can sync up on demand as the relay port does?
Thanks for the response I suspected there wasn’t an existing function.
What I’m trying to do is replicate a tap tempo function but outputting a CC value tap to devices that do not to receive midi clock or have relay control.
For example I have a device that takes tap tempo CC message but not midi clock sync. If tapping tempo on MC6 Pro as master tap tempo all devices sync up correctly using a combination of messages that can be configured to do this within the MC6 Pro.
My aim was in the scenario that I using an external midi clock or defining a fixed BPM within the MC6 Pro, I was hoping to use the MC6 Pro to forward the midi clock to sync up all devices, using a combination of midi clock send/forward, relay tap and CC Tap.
The MC6 Pro has the midi clock forward and the relay tap covered but sending the equivalent CC tap is my missing piece.
Essentially its a mimic of a physical tap tempo at a defined tempo sending a CC message on each tap.
I just bought a Walrus Meraki Delay and unfortunately while it does have some basic midi control it doesn’t have midi clock. The only tempo setting you can do is to send a cc message for “tap tempo”. But at this point it’s effectively working like a relay switch.
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I found this thread searching to see if this was available while I’m planning things out. I could of course wire up a relay out to the expression input since this pedal does have expression. I’d just rather plug in one cable for midi only instead of tying up another port if possible.
A couple of other features requests I’d like to make in relation to this. Would apply both to CC function and relay. I’d love to have the option to send less than 8 taps. Whether that’s a custom number or even just a second option to only send 4. This allows the tempo to be set faster as some pedals might still have little micro time shifts that you’ll hear in the delay if you’re still tapping it when you start playing. Especially analog ones. This would let me set the tempo faster in case it’s a fast transition between songs. With 8 taps I might already be playing a part while it’s still giving the pedal taps and might cause a little glitch sound.
A second request I would have would be to be able to send out tap subdivisions as well. Oscillator Devices has a great implementation of this on his units. It allows me to keep my Starlight’s tap subdivision at quarter notes. Then the Goblin will subdivide the tempos it’s sending out to the unit as quarter, dotted 8th, etc. that way I don’t have to change anything on the pedal and I can have different subdivisions for different songs.
Hopefully that makes sense for the original use case and my feedback requests. Thanks James!