[Ardour-Users] Using the BCF2000 MIDI ports

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 07:55 -0400, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Jonathan Stowe <jns at gellyfish.com> wrote:
> 
> > However the drum machine he no start when I start the transport :-( I
> > think I might have to spend some quality time with the documentation for
> > the device as I thought I had it set up right :-\
> 
> Yeah, most drum machines don't accept MTC (which is a timecode format,
> not a musical tempo clock), instead they look for MIDI clock messages
> which get sent 24 times per quarter note (IIRC), and probably also the
> clock start and stop events (which are different from the MMC
> transport messages that ardour sends).   All in all, I have a feeling
> ardour won't give your drum machine the info it needs via midi :(

As noted in other e-mail it is simpler than that - the device whilst
having an option in its "menu" to allow for MIDI clocking doesn't
actually implement it - apparently they took a more featureful machine
and reduced its cost by removing some of the hardware :-\

/J\