Device continuously sends MIDI clock...?

[Fabian]

So I bought a nifty little new keyboard, the Korg Minilogue. A very nice digital-analogue combination with real knobs you can turn when you play.

One thing though I find strange, and that is that the device continuously sends out MIDI clock (0xF8), whether its sequencer is turned on or not. I find this very strange, should not the clock be sent only between start and stop messages?

Does anyone know what the MDID standard says about this really?

THanks, and Happy New Year.

[ELP]

"should not the clock be sent only between start and stop messages?"

No..

START | STOP | CONT events
serves only for preparation for the SLAVE !

Meaning:
after the Slave receives the above..
=
With the "Next Arriving/Incoming CLOCK event" I should start/stop/resume my possible sequence.

The CLOCK Event (24 events per quarter note) as such is required for the SLAVE to determine/calculate the tempo from MASTER.
It is basically even better to send the clock event permanently and not only between START|STOP or CONT|STOP.
The slave can thus calculate the upcoming TEMPO before START|CONT.
The slave has simply more time to calculate the correct MASTER TEMPO!

Otherwise with no
Continuous Clock event:
the Slave receive START or CONT so he should start with the next incoming clock event..
but with only one clock impulse he cant calculate = cant know the correct Tempo

So Continuous sending Clock events can prevents, for example, glitches / delays after START|CONT.

BTW.
Happy new year
-
the Option for Cont. sending Clock events is simply the last option which is missing for REAPERs native Master MIDI Clock.

EDIT
maybe for:if some guys don´t believe and or cant understand my horny english

[Fabian]

Aha!
Yes, that makes sense.
Thanks for the explanation.

So now I have to tweak the MIDI Logger JSFX to not log clock events, but that's doable.

Thanks.

[ELP]

Yes it seems a little bit stupid, that you can set the Korg Minilogue Clock source only into AUTO or INTERNAL.
AUTO would mean:
If no clock is receiving at input, the Korg Minilogue would act as Master and send a clock...
Internal means: it always act as a Master and send a clock.

An explicit External Mode is simply missing here.

Korg should better update this firmware and add one External option.
Auto|Internal|External

;But otherwise it is nice part, yes.
Have fun