Developer Michael Tyson takes another look at The Spectacular Sync Engine in his latest video blog post
Tyson (Loopy, AudioBus) wants his upcoming Loopy Masterpiece app to have rock-solid MIDI sync, with hardware and other iOS apps. In working on this, though, he found that he’s fighting the fact that MIDI sync is not implemented consistently across iOS apps. To address this, Tyson announced The Spectacular Sync Engine – an open source, standards-compliant, solid MIDI sync engine for iOS.
The Spectacular Sync Engine is designed to easy to work with, and provides precise, jitter-free MIDI clock transmission and robust, error-tolerant MIDI clock reception for iOS apps.
Developers can keep informed on the project via the Sync Engine site.
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the revolution will be synchronized !!1! <3
rounding numbers. averaging numbers over time. this is incredible!
So good to see someone presenting this stuff in a way that’s easy to follow!
If you’re at all interested in music apps and technology, this series is shaping up to be essential viewing!
It would be great if there was some further demonstration of the code itself!
I find these videos so inspiring!
Keep up the amazing work Michael!
These kind of videos are super awesome. I love people talking about computer programming in aspects of computer music making.
but does this mean no fracttional tempos (e.g.,103.5 bpm?
fascinating.
it is clearly an issue that has long needed a solution.
I wondered the same thing, but unless you’re starting a production from material sampled live without a metronome, this shouldn’t be a big issue.
The difference between 120 and 120.5 is ultimately insignificant
Keep in mind that he’s trying to make a kick-ass live looper that is going to be used by vocalists, too and some people who just want to start looping without even using a metronome or pre-defined beat.
It’s also significant when dealing with multiple devices, especially a mix of hardware and iOS/soft synths.
Another great introduction in the spectacular sync…can’t wait 😉