Kopla cool. I have no questions about using click track at gigs myself, as this would open up the possibilities of using different electronic music stuff like sequences and other cool stuff. Unfortunately the people I usually play with have no experience and training in counting when playing, even the lead singer and guitarist just shake their head when u speak musical theory like bars and stuff with them, wich left me to just give up on the whole thing. They are great at playing what they do, but if they have to count, u need to come up with custom methods of explaining how to do it to make em understand. Kinda frustrating for a keys player like myself who wants to use tempo synced sequences. That is impossible with them. In my younger days I used to play in a hi end brassband, lots of competitions and stuff wich we won a lot hehe, so I have a loads of training in playing, counting and listening and adapting to 15 musicians around me.
So this might be a great idea for many people, both, people who unconsciously just count automatically, and for people like my friends in the band who doesn’t feel it. With this they can see it ;-).
I’m no big builder yet, have many midibox projects going but none finished up yet. But can your box be used standalone? Without a seq? I would like to build one, but I don’t have any plans for a mbseq. I realize it is not very usefull if u don’t sync it to an external source wich also control whatever u want to sync to the rest of the band, but it would be usefull even for gigs with no electronic music involved too. A metronome with such visible abilities could be used for everything from deciding start tempo for a song and show it to the whole band without audible click track, to count training for my buddies. The usual one-led handheld metronome won’t cut it on stage if u need everyone to know what tempo u are at. Maybe a drummer could control it.
The control surface is easy enough to design and build, but the programming I wouldn’t know where to start with…
Any of this sound like a good idea? If this cam be realized - with both midi sync wich sounds simple enough - can use whatever midi track to control it, either it is a mbseq or cubase track - and also as a standalone metronome. Would require to write a program for it…
This sounds in my ears somehow exciting hehe, and I would like to have a solution for that, but have no idea how to program it…
Would also be cool to be able to store many songs on a bankstick - just find it in the menu with a encoder, and hit start. And midi sync can be used for more complex stuff, with songs changing beats etc. Jordan rudess comes to mind hehe.
Somehow messy post, but scattered in here is a wish list for features I would like to have if this box was mine. If someone, or you program, I would gladly help design the physical parts of the box ;-).
By the way, is it all in that box seen on the video? How is the possibilities for breaking out the visual indicators from the control circuitry? I’m thinking that maybe the LEDs could be placed somewhere everyone see them, and that for example the drummer can have the controls at his spot… Of course it is not a problem when it is midi synced only… Then u can place the whole thing whereever u want…
Maybe it could be built with a midio app like yours, and a specialized metronome app running on another core, much like what you have now… But the control surface and program should be made in my case specifically as a metronome with capabilities like song / part / scene select, also tap tempo function and beat type selection. Maybe a kind of radio button style selection for the most normal beat types.
Would be an awesome thing to have…
Our biggest problem has always been a sloppy drummer who just put his finger in the air to feel the tempo before he starts or show the other people the tempo. So songs end up often with too great difference in tempo each time we play em, and usually too fast, wich makes the vocalists complain, and also gives the bass guitarist a hard time following bass riffs that are fast to begin with hehe.
A metronome with memory for songs and a visual indication that everyone can see would solve a lot of these common problems!
