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Press play on DAW, press play on Midronome? Or does the Midronome listen to MIDI Start/Stop messages? The Midronome does listen to MIDI Start/stop messages sent over the USB, which will have the same effect as pressing on the Play button on the device (then, on the next bar, the device will send it...

Hi :) Communication between an app and the Midronome is possible but not particularly easy. It looks like the app can receive (and follow) MIDI Clock, and the Midronome sends MIDI Clock over its USB port, so you need to send this to the app somehow. It will require either a computer in between to fo...

Hi :) Not sure where you saw this (the documents?), but no you cannot. This is one of the potential future features, which I will start implementing after people voted for it. Like all other potential future features in this board: https://forum.midronome.com/viewforum.php?f=11 (the one about the ex...

Hi Mlaf :) Unfortunately you will *always* have to mess around with nudging stuff if you want your stuff to be exactly on the grid. There is just no avoiding it since each device will have a different latency, and some devices might even not follow the clock very well (that's much less probable thou...

I would like to know how they handle the "start over" or "continue" message. But yes basically all it needs is to send the clock on one part of the cable (tip in TRS) and a start/stop 5V gate on the other part (ring in TRS). The gate can be interpreted as start/stop or continue/s...

Thank you for voting ha ha

But don't worry I will put up a proper vote system soon. Both swing and clock shifting will be on the vote system

(I can see I wrote January/February above... yes things take time it will come but it will be in April )

Cheers
Simon

I would need to do some investigating to be 100% certain, but I am pretty sure all those devices will work witha 0->5V analog clock?
If so the Midronome has a "Anlg" TRS output which can output a clock between 1ppq and 24ppq, then this should work
Simon

This has always been very clear: this is an add-on module to a device that is not even made yet. So yes, first I need to make the device, then handle quite a few firmware updates, potential firmware bugs, probably design a few of these simpler modules, and only after all this I will start designing ...

Hi :) Well actually the solution to your problem is easy, it's called... the Midronome :D Maybe you did not know: you can hook up a simple footswitch to the Midronome (actually you can hook up max 2) to control mute/unmute, play/pause, or tap tempo (or a mix of these if you have 2 footswitches). Pre...

Of the module? Don't expect it for at least a year, probably 2 :) (it took me 3 years to develop the Midronome, and just to take another example the guys making Reliq were working on it for 5 years before even starting to market it :D ) If you're asking about the Midronome well I send regular update...

Hey Gary That is cheeky indeed ha ha :D It's ok I don't mind. I know the micro-clock from Disaster Area, pretty nifty little device :) It will do what you say it does, send the tempo to the Monologue. I think it can also do a lot more. As for comparing it to the Midronome, well they are two very dif...

Hi Frank!

Nice to know your opinion on the matter
But yes I agree, I also prefer a constantly running clock (I mean at the end I did make the Midronome for myself, so yes my opinion matters ). So no worries if this is implemented, it will be an option

Cheers
Simon

Hey Roland! Thanks for writing :) Yes I agree - such a feature could be awesome! Not sure if you saw but there has been quite a few developments on the matter, the plan is to add this feature to the Midronome as part of a fancy add-on Module (which will have Beat Detection but also Ableton Link and ...

Hi TIm :) Wow - unbelievable, I actually completely forgot about phantom power... Very ironic for an audio engineer :roll: TRS to XLR will work perfectly fine, it's like any other balanced signal. DI box will also work but is not necessary (that's the whole point of the balanced signal). As for whet...

Hey guys :) Currently the Midronome constantly sends MIDI Clock, regardless of the play/stop buttons (they only send a MIDI Start or Stop message - but the clock is always running). I thought this was the expected behavior of a clock, since all MIDI Clock does is "set the tempo", devices w...

Hi Lee! Thanks for writing here. Awesome to get that kind of information, super useful! There are so many usages the Midronome touches already, it's hard to know them all so it's very useful when people bring another one to my attention. Never thought about Lighting designer until now, and even the ...

Hi :) Well the device gets its power from the USB port, which means it is bus powered, there is no other power supply :) It works with USB 2.0 which means it does not draw at any point more than 500mA (so yes your 2021 Macbook Pro will work with it without any issue). As for how much of the battery ...

Hi :) The short answer is that if all you need is a metronome I doubt the Midronome is the solution. The Midronome can be used in many different ways though, so I suggest you investigate a bit more how it could improve your setup. The whole point is that its MIDI clock is precise and stable, and tha...

Hey there :) That's an interesting idea indeed :D It's a little bit outside of the scope for the Midronome, as WorldClock is tempo independent, but why not! I do not know much about World Clock (other than from a user's point of view), but I doubt the current hardware would be able to provide a dece...

Hey Jared!

Welcome to the community
Happy you found it, and awesome usage of the Midronome, it sounds like it will be very useful for you and the band

Yes you can still pre-order - let me get back to you with a link very shortly

Cheers
Simon

Ok that's interesting - you want to be able to start your sequencers but not to stop them? Why is that?

But what you described would work I believe You will also need to stop the MIDI Clock messages from the second port otherwise you will have double clock messages

That's an interesting debate! Because I did not think Ableton Link is really designed for Live use? ... WiFi is not only unreliable but also the way Link syncs things, the fact everybody is a master - it is all about making things easy which is super important (and amazingly done) for a quick jam or...

Hey there :) The Midronome can change its Mute button to make it a second play button. In this mode you have 2 play button, one for each port, and they work independently. Alternatively, you can let the Mute button be, and simply configure the Play button so it only sends start/stop on one of the 2 ...

Hey Gavin
I think for now it's important I focus on the prototypes and get production started

The vote will come around January/february I am thinking, when I have time to start working on these

My pleasure John, happy to hear you jumped on board! :D I was on the lookout for a notification email, but I guess the forum won't do that until you have that employee you're hoping for. The Forum can indeed do that, you just to change your notification settings here: https://forum.midronome.com/ucp...

Idea from Sofus: an option where the Midronome, on top of being disabled when not synced to the DAW, would send MIDI Start and MIDI Stop automatically when the DAW starts and when the DAW stops. This way to record a sequencer all you need is to press play in the DAW, then the sequencer will start au...

No worries Gavin - but yea maybe that question should have been on the thread about swing
And yes generating a sync file should be easy enough, I can totally do that. But I think many people are rooting for swing being implemented in hardware, so let's see what the new features votes give

Hi John Things have changed a bit since my last reply. At this point I am pretty sure there will not be any plugin, at least nor for now. The DAW sync will be based on a WAV file, which you will have to generate for your session (the WAV file will be dependent on your tempo, your time signature and ...

That is also configurable, you can set it to "on", then the clock is sent all the time, or "PLA" and then the clock is only sent when you press play

Hi yelg :) It sends start&stop as well, as the plug is a TRS (stereo), but only in "DIN sync" mode. In this mode the left/tip has a 24ppq analog clock, and right/ring has the start/Stop following the user pressing the play button. The start/stop is a 5V gate. There is already a new fea...