Visual Click?

[stefstabilizer]

Hi All,

Just ordered my kits from Smash and am looking forward to building the thing (and re-ordering the bits I forgot about being a bit of a plank) but while I wait for the delivery I thought I'd start looking at the application side of things and one of the things I can't find any mention of anywhere in the code examples is reading midi time code in terms of bars and beats.

It must be able to be done for the LC timecode display but what I'm after is to create a "visual click" using up to 6 LEDs on the DOUT module.  Ie stepping through each LED on each beat and starting back at LED one on each bar.  6 LEDs should enable most time sigs, or compounds of..

Any clues on where to start or links to where I can read up on this particular requirement?

Laters, Stef

[Jidis]

Stef,

I guess you mean MIDI Clock/Song Pointer. The MIDIMon has routines for that, which should help figure out what stuff you're looking for (in ASM at least).

Good Luck,

George

PS- From what I remember, it doesn't actually disable one of the two (MTC or clock). If you throw it both, it just tries to display both. In Nuendo here, it's no trouble as you can uncheck the one you aren't using in the timecode output panel. May not matter either if you're just grabbing beat/quarter note messages for something else. ;)

[stryd_one]

Any clues on where to start or links to where I can read up on this particular requirement?

MIDI Time Code

That site is THE place for info on anything MIDI

[stefstabilizer]

MIDI Time Code

That site is THE place for info on anything MIDI

Now that is handy!  Thank you...  I think MIDI Clock is what I'm after rather than timecode.

[stryd_one]

My pleasure. That site has been around since like forever too. I owe the name many hours of my time ;)

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