Steinberg SMP 24 and multiple midi clock outputs

[crx091081gb]

Does anyone know if the SMP 24 and Cubase supports sending midi clock (not MTC just plain old 24 ppq midi clock) from multiple outputs? I have a midex+ but in the sync settings in Cubase I only seem to be able to send midi clock from one output. I have enough syncable synths and drum machines that I would ideally like to have them on separate cables each with their own midi clock.

I've tried reading the supplied manual but it is rather unclear on this point, it seems to infer that it can supply midi clock to multiple outputs when used in standalone mode but it doesn't say how it will act with Cubase and centronics cable.

Anyone whose got one care to find out/tell me?

Cheers.

[mal7921]

Hmm, I'm not sure on this one but NGCM should be able to help. if you click on http://www.atarimusic.net/forum/members ... file?u=154, this will take you to his profile, send him a message and he should get back to you pretty quick.

If you don't have an SMP manual, there is one here on the site at http://www.atarimusic.net/warez/non-mus ... re-manuals.

[NCGM]

Hmmm....I only ever really used MTC, and also SMPTE when in commercial studios. Which models of synths and devices used plain MIDI clock data for sync? I once took my then new Yamaha SY55 synth into a studio and could not sync the internal sequencer with the tape machine, so I had to manually play each track into Cubase first. I wonder if the SY55 used the older MIDI clock standard?

[crx091081gb]

Midi clock gets used for all kinds of shizzle it's used to sync tempo for LFOs on my Waldorf Pulses and JV1080, arpeggiators Juno-60 (kenton dcb box syncs arpeg to midi clock), MPX 100 (delay times), my R8m uses it with its feel settings (which I've never really looked into) and my x0x b0x and Jomox XBase (though tbh I'd probably let that run free and sample then trigger it).

In short I have 8 boxes that all have use for midi clock and I don't really want to daisy chain them. If the SMP does midi clock out of multiple ports with Cubase that would be awesome.

Do you have a synth that supports midi clock? Google seems to think that the SY55 does.

It doesn't surprise me that you wouldn't be able to sync it with a tape machine as that would be striped with smpte - there's no easy way to record midi clock to tape, most solutions involve smpte to mtc conversion through a dedicated box (actually you could probably do it with smp 24/midex+)

Page 29 in the SMP manual seems to be the one that covers midi clock, any chance you could set yours to output from multiple ports and see if it works? You'd probably need to set the clock to external in the SY55 and press play and see if the internal seq/lfos/whatever syncs up.

Alternatively if you have a PC (sorry to use a dirty word) you could use midiox to examine the midi data stream.

Cheers

[crx091081gb]

Any news about this? Did you see if it worked?