The FM9 should send a Global Midi Clock Out

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Rawad A Massih

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Hi Everyone.

I recieved the Fm9 a while ago. Its great. My first experience with a digital modeler. I used my Mesa Mk5:25 for many years. I did my first concert with the Fm9 last week, i love it.

But the fact that it doesnt send a midi clock out was a big bummer.

I think everyone has fave pedals that will go along with any digital modeler. The Fm9 has excelent reverbs but i love my Bigsky, ive also got a Boss Sy200. I also have a polyphonic tuner, Morely Wah and a sustainer on the small pedalboard that complements the Fm9 live. Im planning to have a Boss Re202.

It makes a lot of sense that the Fm3 and AxeFx ,as a small pedalboard and a rack, that they dont send midi clock out, because they are units that are designed to be controled by a another controller. But the Fm9 is nominated to be a main mastermind of any rig, it does make no sense at all to get a 9 switches foot controller and control it by another pedal, and it doesnt make any sense to me to buy a global midi clock unit and take a space on my complementary pedalboard when i have more than i need of switches on the Fm9.

This thread is just a call, a protest to Fractal to take this into consideration. And i guess a lot of fellows agree with me.
(Plus adding a polyphonic tuner on that big screen will be great.)

Cheers
 

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If I recall correctly, Cliff has stated elsewhere on the forum that he has already developed a polyphonic tuner algorithm but unfortunately can't implement it because another company (TC Electronic?) owns a patent on that technology and he would risk getting sued.

I agree that MIDI clock out would be a great feature. I don't know if that is feasible with the current iteration of the hardware.
 
OrganicZed said:
If I recall correctly, Cliff has stated elsewhere on the forum that he has already developed a polyphonic tuner algorithm but unfortunately can't implement it because another company (TC Electronic?) owns a patent on that technology and he would risk getting sued.

I agree that MIDI clock out would be a great feature. I don't know if that is feasible with the current iteration of the hardware.
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Oh that is good info man. I didnt know tc had rights to that. I have a hardwire poly pedal. its great. U know...removing weight and reducing cables is one of the main reasons to buy a modeler. (To me at least)
 
Absolutely Yes on the midi clock out. FWIW; I think it should have been a thing on III from the jump. If a piece is going to be the epicenter of your guitar rig; it needs to be able to control everything else downstream.
 
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JiveTurkey said:
Absolutely Yes on the midi clock out. FWIW; I think it should have been a thing on III from the jump. If a piece is going to be the epicenter of your guitar rig; it needs to be able to control everything else downstream.
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it needs to be able to control everything else downstream.
Exactly thats what i think
 
I know its not exactly what maybe wanted but the Tap Temp rate from the FM9 via CC# works for external units. But I would also agree that midi clock out + start/stop commands would be very useful.
 
Nsurround said:
I know its not exactly what maybe wanted but the Tap Temp rate from the FM9 via CC# works for external units. But I would also agree that midi clock out + start/stop commands would be very useful.
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I'm not understanding this.

Can you elaborate?
 
You can assign the Tap Tempo function to a footswitch of the Fm9 to send out a midi cc#. lf that CC# can be received via the external unit and assigned to the tap tempo function of that unit, it should work. In my case, it was the boss RC-500.
 
Nsurround said:
You can assign the Tap Tempo function to a footswitch of the Fm9 to send out a midi cc#. lf that CC# can be received via the external unit and assigned to the tap tempo function of that unit, it should work. In my case, it was the boss RC-500.
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The Tap Tempo function doesn’t send any CC.

Maybe you mean that you’ve assigned a switch to send a CC on tap that you then use to create a tap tempo for external devices?

That would be ok for the external devices but doesn't set the onboard tempo...

Unless there's something I'm completely unaware of?
 
unix-guy said:
The Tap Tempo function doesn’t send any CC.

Maybe you mean that you’ve assigned a switch to send a CC on tap that you then use to create a tap tempo for external devices?

That would be ok for the external devices but doesn't set the onboard tempo...

Unless there's something I'm completely unaware of?
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Yes, that is what I meant. It is a control footswitch function of the FM9 and not directly a Tap Tempo function.
 
I would also benefit from being able to transmit a MIDI clock. FM9 is my centerpiece, and I'm using it with TC Helicon VoiceLive Touch 2. As I read in the manual, p.129, "FM9 does not transmit MIDI clock." my heart sank, and I didn't check it before I bought the voice processor.
It didn't occur to me that it would be unable to transmit tempo information.

Please, change it with the next update: manual p.129 "FM9 does not transmit MIDI clock."
Add this functionality. It sounds like a bit of code addition.

Thanks.
 
Hmm. Maybe if each block had a "MIDI" page where you could assign various controller types and triggers.

Drop down to select a trigger (activate, bypass, activate/bypass, channel A, etc.)
Drop-down to assign a message type
Drop-down(s) to select its parameter(s)

Idk. Just thinking out loud.
 
Deadpool_25 said:
Hmm. Maybe if each block had a "MIDI" page where you could assign various controller types and triggers.

Drop down to select a trigger (activate, bypass, activate/bypass, channel A, etc.)
Drop-down to assign a message type
Drop-down(s) to select its parameter(s)

Idk. Just thinking out loud.
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I think OP wants to trigger stuff external to the FM9 with a clock going out of FM9, not the other way around. Or are you suggesting that the blocks can send a MIDI trigger?
 
Deadpool_25 said:
Hmm. Maybe if each block had a "MIDI" page where you could assign various controller types and triggers.

Drop down to select a trigger (activate, bypass, activate/bypass, channel A, etc.)
Drop-down to assign a message type
Drop-down(s) to select its parameter(s)

Idk. Just thinking out loud.
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How does that apply to sending midi clock?
 
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+1 just in case I didn’t already +1 this thread and all the other threads regarding it.
Midi clock transmit is sorely needed.
 
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