Ooooooo kayyyyyy...... Even more confusion here now. Though I know some of you get it. For the rest, I do have to admit that last post might not have been completley clear to you but people didn't seem to have quite as much of a problem with this stuff the last time the issue came up as it was requested by user thedvs1 on this now ancient thread from the (pre?) JJv2 days:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=85866&hilit=sync&start=15Now if you still don't get it, the first thing I would recomend is to look at a complete table of midi standard messages:
http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midimessages.phpIf you actually read through all the
seperate messages and what they do, you will understand that:
1) The MIDI CLOCK message has nothing to do with starting, stopping or restarting sequencers.
It only tells the sequencer what speed to run at. That's it.
2) Seqencer running status IS controlled by MIDI STOP/START/CONTINUE. No, not Midi Machine Control messages as those are a seperate set of messages added post-midi v1 and intended for use in conjunction with MIDI TIME CODE and pro audio recorders.
So, if your setup requires constant clock but you still want to control running status for all connected sequencers you need a master seq that sends STOP/START/CONTINUE when you hit the master trasport buttons and a clock signal that runs all the time.
I think this is the option the OP is looking for.
On the other hand we now have some in the thread who still want a constant master sync but with independent control of connected and syncronised sequencers running status. In that case you need a master seq that still sends clock all the time but does not send STOP/START/CONTINUE when the master transport buttons are pressed (that's assuming you don't have the option of filtering S/S/C before or at the recieving device).
Both of these requests are valid. There are also reasons why you would want the MPC to behave exactly the way it already does with clock but we've already got that functionality so I won't get into it. Suffice to say that a three way toggle would be optimum.