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Can you elaborate on what you mean with dynamically adjusting the masterclock from the host? I'm just trying to work out the best concept to do this... but if I can be convinced that this is the best thing to do, I'd be willing to throw a hand at it... I have no problem coding something in C. Regards, The Why Project

Thorsten, Thank you for your quick and complete reply. My idea is actually to drive my studio's clocked devices from another hardware module (my XBase09 or G2 for instance). ClockBox seems to take care of most of the output requirements, and even though i plan the device to be driven by a tighter clock than my PC-USB interfaces (Midex-8), your idea of interpolation on the bpm detector is good too. What about implementing this through counters only? By just counting the number of pulses, given the fact that a performance starts on step 0 with a song-start command, by just using a simple looping counter, you could extract the position in the (any) bar... and use that to define when you would re-start sending out midi-clock... This way you don't depend on an interpolated BPM detection routine, which I feel might introduce more error than the method above? BTW. If only the clock that came from Cubase/Midex-8 would be tight, I would have written a midi-plugin to do this a long time ago :D Anway, that's just some thougts that just came in to my mind... Regards, The Why Project

Hi, I'm new to this forum, and would like to know if it would be possible to make a device like the Sync² with the MB/MIOS platform. You can see the Sync² here: http://home.netspeed.com.au/aistorm/sync2.html I would like to build an eight or sixteen multi-channel device that does exactly the same: stop the midi-clock based sync from a master when de-activated, and then when you re-activate, restart sync out with the next bar. Obviously in a multi-channel setup, with independent control over each channel's status. I have many devices that can slave to midi-clock in my studio, and a device like this could really give a great feel of live-performance to a night's twiddling :D Would it (in principle) be possible to build such a device with MB/MIOS, is the timing of the platform stable enough to do this properly in a multichannel configuration? I have decent soldering experience, and am not afraid to get busy with a bit of coding either, so if anybody here would like to pick up this idea (just because this could become an extremely cool device, not only for my own place), I'd like to discuss the subject. Regards, The Why Project