No MIDI Clock Output

VST Live
1

Hi,
I tried to sync external gear via MIDI Clock, and it usually just doesn’t work. About every 100th time I change settings, the connected MIDI interface or whatever it works, absolutely no way to find a rule behind the settings. Just to make this clear: I used 5 different interfaces, all of them working in the same settings without any problem with cubase and MIDI Clock. Obviously this is a software issue within VSTL. I would like to see the important things for using the software live being taken care of with absolute priority, I don’t want to rely on something that sometimes doesn’t sync, sometimes receives no MIDI in, sometimes puts no audio out…

2

Try connecting another PC via midi and check incoming data with midimonitor
You should see the start/stop commands and tempo coming in. No problem here with VSTL

3

I checked with the Midi Monitor of my Kurzweil, no data coming…

4
  • set Midi Clock Output in “edit/Preferences/Transport” to “VM Out 7” (example)
  • open MIDI Monitor in “Devices” menu, set input to “VM In 7” (match nuber to MCL out VM)
  • start VST Live transport. This is what VST Live sends to whatever MIDI output you chose. You can also see the tempo that the Midi Monitor calculates (t = 120).

Does that work for you so far?

5

I get this in the Monitor after a start and stop:

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6

Then Clock is received via the virtual loopback test.

7

Sorry, this is not enabled in release yet, you will not see it.
You will also not see midi clock bytes (0xF8) because there are too many. The song pointer shows that MIDI Clock is sent.

8

I tried different hardware setups once again, and found one that seems to work. Maybe it is the interface used for midi that causes the problems. I will have to carry an extra interface only for midi…
I first tried an xr18 for audio as well as midi passthru, worked at home, not at the gig…

9

Make sure to check “Devices/Connections”.