jayrope

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it already has been asked, but i need to ask again in more detail:

Is there a patch to use max to convert incoming midi clock to

- trigger a start and stop commands via MTC, and

- send cc commands to Logic in beat intervals, which would be suitable as a kind of tap tempo control?

This way Logic's inability (since version 8) to sync to external midi clock could be overcome...

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https://cycling74.com/forums/logic-not-syncing-to-max
it already has been asked, but i need to ask again in more detail:

Is there a patch to use max to convert incoming midi clock to
- trigger a start and stop commands via MTC, and
- send cc commands to Logic in beat intervals, which would be suitable as a kind of tap tempo control? 

logic-not-syncing-to-midi-clock-use-max-to-help

Here's a clock to CC part to get you started:

How you generate start/stop depends on whether the device you are syncing to sends a clock start/stop message itself. Probably the best thing to send to Logic would be MMC start/stop, which is a sysex message - you can find the spec for that via Google.

I don't think you'll like the tap tempo in Logic much (have you tried it?), the tempo interpreter window has to remain open, and you can only have the selected softsynth track playing because of that. I remember it being fairly broken in the past, perhaps they've fixed that (yeah, right).

My advice if you need to sync Logic 8+ to incoming MIDI Beat Clock is still "use something else, and please file a feature request with Apple".

Thank you much for this, John. Admittedly i couldn't make it work, as Logic, whatever way i went (IAC BUS etc.), simply didn't eat the clock.

I am not sure i want to file a feature request with Apple. Logic Audio is such a semi-professionally sounding application and for such a long time now, that it doesn't seem to make sense to tell them about the lack of midi clock syncing abilities while their audio engine already remains to sound average at max.imum. someone on some apple forum replied to me already saying "it never worked anyways". ha.

i'll just code what i need into max, probably sounds better.

Logic not syncing to midi clock - use max to help?