Hey,

Now I've pretty much been looking for a solution to this problem for days now(literally). I've searched Google, this forum and a couple of other sources, but there doesn't seem to be any information on this.

Now, what I want to do is simply send either play, pause, record or stop to my sequencer(Propellerhead's Record) in order to make it easier to record the drum loops i built with the step sequencer I made in PD.

I got sending midi notes over midi yoke working flawlessly, but when it comes to recording, my timing is just off most of the time making it quite frustrating to get these drum loops into Record. Don't get me wrong, it does work, but having to go in and adjusting stuff every time just defeats the purpose for which i built my step sequencer(I know, I could just use the sequencer built into Record's drum machine, but I plan on building a peripheral to get hands on control over my drum loop creation and then send that data to PD in order to be interpreted and change into midi signals)

Is there any way of sending mmc messages out of pd? Has anybody ever managed to control the transport controls of another software sequencer from PD?

Are you just recording MIDI? If so (and Pd isn't producing any audio) try pulling the audio delay buffer as low as possible. Pd syncs the audio output buffer with MIDI output. I think the idea is that if you send audio via jack, the MIDI messages will be synced up to the audio. But if you're not doing any audio, just lower the audio buffer in the Audio Settings dialog.

Thanks for the reply.

My syncing problems are with me, not with my patch or my sequencer.

What I'm doing right now is press record in my sequencer, wait for the count-in to pass, and then start my patch, so it can send midi data to my sequencer(which works without a problem). The problem is that my timing is always a little off, thus making it difficult to record longer sequences without having to go in and do corrections(quantizing doesn't help either).

What I want to do, is have a button in my patch which starts my patch and sends a record message to my sequencer, so both start at them same time. (They probably won't start at the same time, either, but I bet my computer is much much faster than my finger )

And all I really want to know is how to send MMC messages out of PD.

Is that even possible?

Never-mind people, I found a way to do this without having to use or send MMC messages.

Turns out, that in Propellerhead's Record you can even automate its transport section. I just used its built in MIDI learn function and just send regular note on messages to it.....

Kinda embarrassed that I didn't think of this earlier....:)

Hey, that's a very good solution but what MIDI On message did you use? I mean, how do you program a button to be able to then route it to Propellerhead's Record?

Thanks!

To answer the original question posed (in case anybody searching this thread is actually looking for the answer):

MMC messages are sent the same way in PD as any other sysex message. The simplest method is a comma-seperated list message of the sysex bytes connected to a midiout object. This page lists the the specific syntax for MMC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Machine_Control

HOWEVER -- Sysex functionality may still be broken in Windows. (thou that was supposed to be fixed soon).

@RickyGWave Hello Ricky......
You will need a midi loopback program so that the midi output of Pd can be sent to the midi input of Propeller, unless you are using osx, in which case I think you can use the built-in midi-settings to loop the midi internally.
Try http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html for windows.
Then you send a midi note from Pd to a named midi output.
You set the midi output in Pd under the Media tab.
In Reason (propeller?) you set the same name as a midi input, and then activate the learn function for the record button. When you send the note from Pd by clicking the message Reason will associate that note with the record button.
David.

Thank you @NoDSP and @Whale-av. the replies where months ago but I never came back to you. I was in a hurry working like mad in my patch for my dissertation! I manage to get it to work and got a very good grade so thank you very much!
Ricardo