I can’t get my QC to follow incoming midi clock.
I know MIDI clock is flowing correctly through the QC as it passes it through MIDI thru to other pedals.
However, the QC is on internal tap tempo and doesn’t follow the incoming MIDI clock.
Also, the tap tempo LED is red (I’ve seen in videos that it could be green and blue when following MIDI clock).
There aren’t many MIDI settings on the QC and I feel I’ve tried everything. Could the unit be faulty ? Any help would be greatly appreciated !
The Midi Thru functionality is weird on the QC, I would focus on experimenting with that setting to see if it’s causing the sync issue. However, that’ll be a problem for your other devices if that is the culprit.
I feel like the MIDI Thru / MIDI Out works as intended :
When MIDI Thru is ON in global settings, MIDI clock is passed to the next pedals in MIDI chain, but QC cannot send MIDI CC through preset midi out option.
When MIDI Thru is OFF in global settings, it is the opposite : MIDI clock is not transmitted but I can use Preset midi out to dend CCs to pedals in the chain.
That is a bit frustrating because of course I would like the best of both worlds : MIDI Clock transmitted AND send Preset MIDI Out.
Anyway, my problem is more straightforward and, as I see no post on the subject here, I’m afraid of having a faulty unit. Or maybe I’m missing something obvious… : Whatever the MIDI setting QC never syncs to external MIDI Clock
The connexions and MIDI cables seem OK as I am able to pass MIDI clock to other pedals through QC via MIDI Thru as stated above…
May I ask, what is the normal LED colors for tempo ?
I saw a 2022 video where it seemed like green was for internal tempo and blue for MIDI sync.
On my unit, tempo LED is always red. Does that mean something ?
I keep a Disaster Area SmartClock Gen3 on my pedalboard along with my QC and I’ve never been able to get the QC to receive the MIDI clock. (I use the SmartClock with external Boss delay pedals on my board.)
I’m away from my QC at the moment, but I’ll keep checking in on this thread.
Yes, it’s a bummer. It means that QC cannot transmit an external clock and Preset MIDI commands at the same time to MIDI devices. It would great if QC could merge incoming MIDI and internal MIDI to the OUT port.
Would using your QC and having it send midi / tempo to your other pedals work in your setup? Thats what I do. All 3 wet effects pedals I use are external to the QC and I tap tempo on the QC* which sends to all 3 pedals if needed.
*Frustratingly - wish I could see the current tempo on the screen, and then twist the tap switch to adjust on the fly
@chrismadson@andycoalter The use case is the following : I have two pedals in my QC FX loop. I want to use the QC footswitches to control midi parameters on those pedals, and still feed an external clock (that comes from a larger set-up) to the QC and to the pedals that are rhythmic based.
It seems the only way to achieve this would be if QC could merge the midi messages it receives (mainly the clock) to the internal midi messages it outputs. It is not possible as of today and is the feature request linked above.
@Julien This is how I have my rig setup (kind of). All of my wet effects are in the QC’s FX loop. I have the QC buttons (D & H specifically) set up to control Program changes on my “delay” Specular Tempus pedal. Separate program changes from a Morningstar MC6 to control my “reverb” specular tempus pedal and Synesthesia. The tempo is set in the QC from the tap (and twist ) switch sent out through my midi out of the QC, into the Morningstar MC6 (which connects all 3 GFI pedals via midi cables).
Theres probably an easier way to do it, but this suits my use case. Once my preset for each pedal is loaded, I can adjust parameters on the individual pedals (more mix, less decay, more modulation, more repeats, less repeats etc.) based on the room/song.
Hopefully this is helpful - unless you absolutely need the external clock system, or you’re asking midi to do more complex commands than just program changes. Good luck!
) switch sent out through my midi out of the QC, into the Morningstar MC6 (which connects all 3 GFI pedals via midi cables).