Hey guys im using the midirealtimein object to get a midi sync signal off reason 7 onto Pure Data. I'm using the IAC buses to link them up. So far ive been successful enough to get midi notes from reason 7 onto Pure data though Notein object linked with the IAC Bus 1. I created another IAC Bus for the midi sync and set the midi clock out onto IAC Bus 2. For some reason it doesnt seem to be working. I tried it with IAC Bus 1 as well, but no midisync data seems to be coming in to pure data. Is there something im doing wrong?

what about with the normal [midiin] object?

but don't get your hopes up too much. I have never had any luck getting a tight midi clock sync to or from pd. It's always been really jittery and basically unusable.

Might be better using Jack for midi or something, i dunno.

anyway, yeah, not easy. I think that's why you don't see any midi clock examples in any of the help docs.

@mod said:

but don't get your hopes up too much. I have never had any luck getting a tight midi clock sync to or from pd. It's always been really jittery and basically unusable.

Might be better using Jack for midi or something, i dunno.

anyway, yeah, not easy. I think that's why you don't see any midi clock examples in any of the help docs.

midiin object? will that help me sync the two platforms? basically i'm trying to get a metronome count from reason which could help be bang different messages for different camera angles in GEM. I dont want a solid sync, at this point anything would work. Also does the midiin object carry a mtc with it? And when you say jack do you mean a hardware based midi input from a soundcard or something.. that is my final option, but it'd be super simple if i can get a midiclock within my laptop.

thanks for the help though

Just a couple of out-of-the-box ideas...

A trick some guitar FX junkies use is to use a CC. Some tools & gear will let you map a CC value to a tempo, in bpm. No counting ticks...
OR...
Sometimes sending a simple CC on a beat-aligned pulse (e.g., from a DAW) & mapping that to a 'tap tempo' function in the downstream gear.

Not everything supports slaving to a MIDI clock, but you can often find a way to set or tap it. You may be able to find a parallel strategy here.

FWIW - I haven't been able to get midrealtimein or midiin to work in pd-extended 0.43.4 at all on Windows7. notein & bendin work seamlessly & I worked with those. I seem to recall reading others had the same issues - & had to go back to the previous version. Though I couldn't find those posts on a quick search just now...

i managed to get midirealtimein working with midiclock messages comming
from my ensonique Halo or a moog slim phatty.
Workout is midirealtimein select 248 bang count 6 or 12 bangs and sync
to that counter count, WorkS great.
Dian from the Netherlands

Ps i work with pure data on a Rpi wheezy Debian

yeah I've gotten it to work using my volca beat's MIDI out to a m-audio fast-track pro and then into PD using ALSA on linux. My guess is that it has to do with your drivers and interface as much as it has to do with pd because once I tried sending mesages out (IE sending a 248 to [midiout] 24 times a quarternote) I always got a delay and lost ticks now and then.

BTW [midiin] does NOT handle this although it really should.