Yea, please help me understand how/if that statement is un-true
I am here… Just dabbling with all the different Sequencers, and testing this out, and it seems, there is No Way ( even with MIDI sync ) to have successful synchronization of 2 ( or more Major DAW’s ) together
This all started when i realized it was not even possible to sync FL Studio with Renoise, using MIDI Sync ( bc both DAW’s have some kind of SPP reception broken … and it does not work as intended either way )
So i am just wanting to see if/how there is a workaround / who/which DAW developer would fix what… bc this is like the most basic feature in the DAW ( we are talkin about 80’s tech literally ) that you would expect to work out of the box
So i did several testings…
Cubase to FL, Cubase to Bitwig, Cubase to Renoise
FL to Renoise
Bitwig to FL, Bitwig to Renoise
All with the same MIDI loopback ports
And the weirdest of the weird anywhere, is that only Bitwig seems to send SPP’s and only Renoise seems capable to receive them ( if/when sent properly ) from other DAW’s
Is this really so ? That there is no way to synchronize a DAW with MIDI in 2024 ? lol… almost like hillarious, unless it’s not bc i am a musician… wanting to sync a daw to make music like people used to be able to…
Please would someone help end this purgatory ( for ( us ) musicians… ) ?
sorry for my ignorance but idk the porpuse of midi sync or spp, you mean syncing the trasport?
I used ReWire in the past, it worked preeeetty well, shame that Propellerhead killed it in 2020, supposedly Renoise still has it so you’d just have to use an older version of Cubase/Logic/FL/Bitwig or other software that hasn’t deprecated it, and this is all OS dependent, it worked on Linux with Jack, on Windows/Mac you may have to change some settings.
Renoise has implemented Ableton Link but all it does is sync the tempo start/stop not working yet or Link is not what I think it is (I don’t have hardware)
I have indeed found a way to sync 2 daws in MacOS, go to Audio MIDI Setup > Window > Show MIDI Studio > Enable IAC Driver
Go to Renoise preferences set MIDI Clock Master as the IAC
Set input MIDI clock slave as the IAC in your other DAW, now they should be synced, in Ableton 12 an Ext button appears and you have to press it
Seems you want to control Renoise with the other program’s transport, so you’d set it in reverse, make renoise the clock slave
i made a video how Renoise Jumps the Song Position( s ) when playback is pressed
Otherwise it seems would possible work between FL and Renoise, however would have to prevent Renoise from ‘resetting’ the SPP messages when pressing play…
Wasn’t Ableton Link added to Renoise for this purpose? At least it is partly supported in Renoise, but I don’t think that song position is synced or so, just play/stop?
Bitwig, Ableton, Reason, Logic, Pro Tools support it
There are many trouble nodes in getting a DAW to MIDI sync.
Simply having a start point and a stop state for all DAWs connected to the MIDI network, and wanting to start and stop playback at the same BPM, etc., can be interpreted differently depending on the philosophy of the DAW The basic design of Renoise is similar to a loop-based pattern sequencer, It is a bit different from other DAWs because it is more like a groove box.
However, if you just want a wav file of the final track merged together, you can export it in Renoise and merge it with another DAW.
To summarize the above, syncing a DAW with MIDI is not a very easy story to describe, at least not very easily.
You need to clearly talk about the case, the conditions, and what you want to do in a limited way.
lol… almost like hillarious, unless it’s not bc i am a musician… wanting to sync a daw to make music like people used to be able to…
