Drummer has a metronome app he uses to call up the tempo of next song. Even though he has them in order - it’s taking too long and we lose the dance floor. I can put the tempos in gig performer and I think I know how to send it out on midi but how do I receive that as a visual metronome for the drummer?
He has a roland td27 but so far as I can tell it only has click and no visual metronome. We do a test on Monday to see if I can use my songs in gigperformer to choose the appropriate “drum kit” for him which will help minimize time between songs too.
He is using an app on the iphone that flashes the entire screen with the tempo.
He is solid in time with a few beats to guide his count. I have nicknamed him “Rolex” because his time is gold.
I was wondering if I could send the midi clock over wifi to his phone if there is an app to receive it. But I just had an idea of a possible simpler lower tech solution. Maybe I can use the audio click on a separate channel and find/modify/build something that would flash to the click like an LED driven by an amp, a visual sound level indicator.
Using Touch OSC on the iPad would be the best solution.
With sending OSC message from Gig Performer via WiFi you can create a flashing graphics on his iPhone.
All you need is a WLAN-Router with WiFi, Touch OSC on the iPhone and some simple scripting in Gig Performer.
I’m revisiting this topic after it’s been dormant for a while. The reason I can’t use GP is that it doesn’t push MIDI clock events to external devices. I own an Oxi One, some hardware synthesizers, and an SL MK III. Both the Oxi and the SL MK III have sequencers programmed for short sequences, and the external synthesizers have tempo-synced LFOs and similar features. How can I control these devices and various VSTs if I can’t forward GP MIDI clock events to them? I could, of course, use the GP MIDI Player instead of the sequencers, but I’d like to avoid that since they’re part of my musical vocabulary, and I do sequence improvisation in them. But synchronizing the hardware devices to the tempo? Impossible. Or am I missing something? Why doesn’t GP do this? Even free MIDI routers like Miditrix and Mididash offer this functionality, my DAW does it. And GP itself can synchronize to the tempo of an external hardware device. What’s stopping you from routing these MIDI events to the MIDI outputs? After all, the VST outputs also support receiving MIDI clock, or whatever you need to program in VSTs.