Ok, I am trying to make a BOSS rc-20, Reason, and a Casio fz-20m live in harmony; front-ended by myself. Of course, the perfoect studio stabalizer in this situation is Pure-Data.

I decided I need the rc-20, which is a pretty limited looper pedal, to send midi sync. So, I decided to 'tap' the LED which indicates the tempo, and feed this into an audio amp... Viola! Four on the floor and an audible 'blip.' naturally I next turned to pd and built a patch--

I fed the audio into bonk~ and sent the bangs to this little guy;

248 (message)
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Midiout

Along with Appropriate messages for Remote control.
I then sent the sync to Reason via the MidiPipe app (with virtual I/O)

The prblem is, it didn't work. Reason recieves the start/stop messages, but the tempo of playback fluctuates randomly, even when I trigger the message with metro.

is this the easiest/best, or even possible way to do What I want to do?

your help is greatly appreciated.

--Nestor

Obviously, you need a midi timecode or a midiclock

It would be possible to build the corresponding messages of the midiclock and send it to reason with pure data.

Patco