Hi Folks,
I'm curious if some one could humor me and walk me through all of the steps to enable the use of a MIDI clock I'm sending from Traktor via my mac's IAC driver to QLC+ as a means to progress through a series of chaser scenes. I've done quite a bit of reading on all of the QLC+ documentation and have yet to really understand how to do such a thing.
If anyone has any experience with sending the midi clock signal from Traktor to QLC+ I'd really appreciate hearing how it was done.
Cheers.
Midi Clock via Traktor for a Beginner
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Joe
Hello Wade,
I posted a brief walkthrough to doing this a few months.
"First create an IAC Bus driver in the OS X Midi setup panel, then in Traktor set it to an output in the controller manager, then in under the midi clock tab, enable send midi clock. Then back in the main Traktor UI, go into the metronome tab and set it up to tick, turn on auto and then press the play/pause button. Now load any song and set it playing. In QLC+ patch the IAC driver into a free input universe. If all has gone well you'll now see the joystick icon flashing to the beat. Click auto detect on the tap input on a speed dial and then wait for a beat and it will detect midi channel 531. Now you should be able to add chases to this timer and have them always work to the BPM of the music. I've created a 2 page solo frame, with identical timers, except one is set to get its value from a slider on my midi keyboard, and one from the Traktor BPM tap. This way I can slow the chase down for a breakdown, or speed it up as fast as I want for a drop."
Hope it helps!
Joe
I posted a brief walkthrough to doing this a few months.
"First create an IAC Bus driver in the OS X Midi setup panel, then in Traktor set it to an output in the controller manager, then in under the midi clock tab, enable send midi clock. Then back in the main Traktor UI, go into the metronome tab and set it up to tick, turn on auto and then press the play/pause button. Now load any song and set it playing. In QLC+ patch the IAC driver into a free input universe. If all has gone well you'll now see the joystick icon flashing to the beat. Click auto detect on the tap input on a speed dial and then wait for a beat and it will detect midi channel 531. Now you should be able to add chases to this timer and have them always work to the BPM of the music. I've created a 2 page solo frame, with identical timers, except one is set to get its value from a slider on my midi keyboard, and one from the Traktor BPM tap. This way I can slow the chase down for a breakdown, or speed it up as fast as I want for a drop."
Hope it helps!
Joe