2 MIDI Clock Questions

[Frank1119]

@zfw

Any suggestions for my first question? How should I go about getting my second external controller (arturia beatstep) to sync to the master clock?

If you only have the clock available at your computer, you need to route it to several MIDI ports simultaneously. On Windows I use txl midi router, together with loopmidi. On mac I’m not sure, but most of the time that sort of things are easier.

Sending MIDI from one device to multiple programs

This is for Windows users. Sometimes you need to send MIDI messages to more than one application at a time at once. However, most MIDI drivers on Windows don’t allow you to open one MIDI port multiple times. So you have to toil around in both applications turning on and off a particular MIDI input. For MIDI outputs, same principle applies. There is a workaround using two utilities together. First, setup loopMIDI from Tobias Erichsen: loopMIDI | Tobias Erichsen. Create two virtual MIDI cables…