Midi clock renoise-vcv rack

[LarsBjerregaard]

@Ohmer

Hope of these irritatings bugs around timers - since the beginning of VCV Rack - will are definitively fixed one of these days.

I can understand you’re irritated but you seem to think this is a problem Rack has, and that Andrew can solve for you? Try and read this topic again from the top. It seems plenty of people are telling us that this is a problem with operating systems and MIDI over USB and so there’s probably nothing Rack can do about it.

@marc_boule

what I have heard is that midi clock is intrinsically not very stable, and people seem to get much better results by actually sending a clock signal through an audio channel

@23volts

I can confirm this, in Ableton Live at least. Using midi clock always had somme jitter… By switching to an audio pulse and the Pxx mode in clocked, got sample accurate synchronization.

@David

Jitter is a problem across all platforms

@marc_boule

Modern computers tend to give MIDI hardware (particularly over USB) a low priority compared to other system events. This notoriously leads to timing errors in generating the midi clock and thus any slave devices will not sync correctly. For syncing to a computer it is recommend an audio track based clock is used or you use Pamela as the master with MIDI clock from the expander to DAW.

@steve

Time spent trying to get stable sync through midi will just lead to hair pulling and gnashing of teeth…

Best thing you can do is give up on that and start down the audio pulse sync path which will quickly lead to sync heaven and you’ll kick yourself for spending all that time trying to get midi to work as you’d expect it to.

@23volts

Yes there’s always a bit of jitter involved, but it really depends on the synth… Some do sync really OK, some so bad it’s nearly non usable…

MIDI sync with VCV Rack as master - a demo

This is a “little” writeup on using MIDI sync/MIDI clock with VCV Rack and external gear. MIDI sync with VCV Rack and other gear is a frequent topic that’s brought up, and as I just purchased an Arturia Keystep I’ve had a chance to get some practical experience, with good results, that I thought I’d share for the benefit of you all. As Omri Cohen and many other people have observed, MIDI sync with Rack as slave and external gear as master is… not great. My observation is that it’s completely u…