MIDI in/out objects in the mixer.

[kmatheussen]

[upratathlavu]

Hi, do you plan to implement midi out? Specifically I'm looking for a program that would be able to:

• send MIDI clock and MIDI CC to external hardware (tc electronic ditto x4 looper and Boss DD500 delay, in my case, but that shouldn't matter) - probably isn't implemented, yet?
• receive MIDI from external hardware (MIDI keyboard) or record external synths - but afaik this is allready implemented
• play backing track (for example .wav file) - this probably already works, too
• provide looping worklflow - not sure if implemented

I want to set up a session with backing track, MIDI track that will send MIDI CC to the looper at specific points in time and another MIDI track for looping, where I at some point in time record something for several bars and then just let it loop for several other bars, then stop/pause this loop (while the rest continues to play) and then maybe start and stop/pause the loop at other moments. What I want to accomplish is to be able to loop various synths and also my bass and guitar via the external MIDI looper for live performance. Do you think it is or would be possible in near future using Radium? I tried other software like Ardour, Seq24, Zrythm, Giada, Sunvox, but all of them lacked one of the features or simply weren't stable enough. Thank you.

[kmatheussen]

Firstly, this issue is about having a mixer object that can send MIDI. MIDI out is available in the so-called "MIDI Instrument", but this instrument is not available in the mixer so you can't send events to it from other instruments.

Secondly, Radium can send MIDI CC, but not MIDI clock. There are tools to send MIDI clock from jack though, perhaps you can use it / one of them: https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+midi+clock

Regarding your plan, I'm not entirely sure about the details, and I'm not so sure Radium will work very well, but maybe. One problem is recording from MIDI. Recorded notes are not stored until the player is stopped, for instance when the loop reaches it's end. There might be other problems as well I don't know.