Hi All! I have a question. I'm hoping to use the Disaster Area micro.clock as an external controller to set my midi clock on the MC6. I would prefer to use the micro.clock for tap tempo vs. the onboard tap tempo screen on the MC6. Is it possible to run it that way? Thanks!
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Hi Ed,
The MC6 does not process the MIDI clock signals internally, and only passes them thru. Hence, it is not possible to set the MIDI clock tempo externally on the MC6
If it passes the tempo through from the micro.clock, wouldn't that make it possible for the tempo to go through MC6 and out to the pedals?
Or would the only way to use the micro.clock with the MC6 be to receive the bpm set by the MC6 and display the tempo that is set?
I’m also thinking about connecting the micro.clock to the midi in on the MC6 (using the special cable Disaster Area sells), instead of using it through expression ports. That should in theory work.
@ed mazzucco I don't see how that wouldn't be possible. Maybe James has more info.
Hi @ed mazzucco, I sent an email asking about compatibility with the micro.clock and MC6 and got this message: Hello Anthony,
Thanks for your email.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to access the MC6 MKII's manual, but if it will accept MIDI Clock, you would be good to go with a SMARTClock Gen3.
The micro.clock is more for sending taps to a few pedals rather than MIDI clock as a primary option.
If you have any additional questions, please let us know.
Thank you,
Drew Smith Customer Support
Thanks so much for chasing that answer down. Sounds like I need a SMARTClock. I did end up buying a trs to midi cable for the micro.clock to test it out, so I'll let you know what happens with that.
Thanks!
@ed mazzucco heard from them again with this: Yeah, the MC6 doesn't have any 1/4" inputs for MIDI, so you'd need a bunch of adapter cables to make them talk to each other. I'd recommend the SMARTClock instead since it has 5-pin MIDI that is compatible with the MC6.
Cool thanks! my adapter cable is arriving in the mail today, so hopefully I can try it out tonight and see what happens. I hope it will all work, since 1. I already own a micro.clock and 2. it's sits nicely next to the MC6 where as the SMARTClock is much larger. We'll see...
Good news @Anthony Esposito! Just received the cable and now it all works as expected! :) Easy to set up! Took a quick video to show it in action.
Wow excellent! When you go to the mode set the midi clock bpm on the morningstar (like in the photo below) and you then tap on the micro.clock, does it change the bpm on the morningstar too? Or does the morningstar still just think the bpm is default? Hope my question isn't too confusing.
Just tried that and taping on the micro.clock does not change the tempo on the MC6 as well. Looks like when you set up a midi clock event on the MC6 it will bypass the master midi clock up until you exit that tap view. Hope that answers your question.
As in the micro.clock overrides the MC6 tap as soon as you exit? As long as the micro.clock works as a master clock through the MC6 as it seems to be from your video I'm sold
Right. Once you exit that tap screen, the micro.clock takes global control again. That may be actually preferable to me that it works that way so I can save specific clock settings for presets and don't have to keep updating the micro.clock tempo. Ideally it would be best if they always synced, but there is no midi in on the micro.clock, so it can only be a master device.
I'm so grateful you did the research on this. Thanks! We should trade some programming ideas sometime. I've done some amazing things with the MC6 and the Echo System. You'd dig the looping setup I made and I also put all of the tap divisions into a few banks for each of the delay 2 delays, so I can have each delay sync'd but in different tap divisions.
Oh wow, would love to check that out. Thanks! I'm still very new to the MC6 (besides this midi clock stuff and setting up a bunch of preset functions - on Meris stuff it's so necessary). I'm just happy it's working like I hoped it would so far.
Here are the banks for tap divisions for the echo system. There are 3 banks that cover all of the possible sub divisions. On the left are what the banks are called. One the right it shows the first delay on the bottom line and the second delay on the top line. So when I'm in dual delay mode I just tap each subdivision I want and the 2 delays are in different subdivisions which are super fun to play with.
Wow, thanks for this!
Just checked out your youtube. It's funny, I have a song called Shelf Life. I never actually released the song though
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