MIDI Footswitch Interact with DAW / Clock

[Zsolt]

Hi all – this is my first post here and I need some orientation.
I’m not totally new to midi, but nonetheless, I would need to hear some opinions and maybe even confirmations about the possibilities, and all support or forwarding to other sources will greatly be appreciated.

As far as I can see, most of the folks that use midi footswitch devices work with pedalboards and hardware effects.
I myself have no pedalboard, but I work with DAW (Ableton live 11) and I simply trigger and pilot effect switches and parameters, and it is quite hard to find information about that - other similar threads didn’t seem to help.

So what I want to do:

It is easy to trigger clips, and Ableton will quantise that.

But: I would appreciate if it would be possible that i. e. an MC6 as slave to Abletons midi clock (or to the midi clock of the audio interface?? —> RME UCXII) could do a quantised trigger to switch an effect on or off.

Someone could say: just practice to hit the button with the foot just in the right time. Yes – but when there are three or four effect buttons to trigger, and I would like all of them to execute the action right on the ‘one’ of the next bar of the song ….

So the question is: can an MC6 be slaved to work this way?

Zsolt

[Brandon]

Yes. Morningstar MIDI controllers can receive external MIDI clock, which will set its own internal clock to match. This setting is a factory default. As long as you have not enabled Ignore MIDI Clock, your Morningstar controller will receive and respond to external MIDI clock either via USB or its MIDI inputs.

[Zsolt]

That sounds great - Thanks Brandon. And just to be sure — sorry for the noobie question: can I expect that this includes SPP song position pointer without just like that?

[Brandon]

Our controllers receive but do not do anything with Song Position Pointer messages at the moment.

[Zsolt]

So this implies a feature request then. : ))
Thank you for support
Zsolt