Set tempo via midi (not tap!)

Quad Cortex Feature Requests
1

Currently, you can indeed already set the QCs tempo via midi message CC#44:
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However, message CC#44 is a tap message, meaning that a midi controller needs to send that message multiple times in the desired time interval in order to set the tempo. Which is common practice and mimics the function of the tap tempo foot switch. The given value is irrelevant and will be ignored.

However, I’d love to be able to set the tempo with just one single midi message in cases where I know the tempo of a song.

So for example:

CC #23 Value 0-255

Would set the QCs tempo to the given value in bpm (0-255).

I’m well aware that I could set different tempos for different scenes. But in my personal use case, I’d have to permute all the scenes I already have (clean, crunch, lead, ambient, rhythm, …) with all the desired/known tempos (I’m constantly circling between 108, 114, 117 and 120, for example).

2

I don’t know the possible technical limitation but this should be the way to do it. For me, it makes no sense to send two MIDI messages for only one action. Please guys! Vote this!

3

Two more reasons to change this:

  • MIDI has unpredictable slight latency, so it’s practically impossible to set a tempo that syncs with a click
  • the description in the manual is misleading
4

This feature can be really useful to minimise amount of scenes and presets for songs, that has time signature and tempo change

5

I agree with this request, but you can use scenes to hack this. In the scene, use the scene to turn off sync to tap tempo on the device, and then you can specify the time of the delay. If you are syncing multiple blocks, each one would have to be adjusted for the scene. I use this for a slapback scene.

6

I use midi clock messages to sync backing track from either Logic or my Idoru P1 to the QC. Works wonders

Tempo changes in logic are matched by the QC no issue.

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