[sdiy] MIDI clock query

Graheme Wilson quicksilvercarrier at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Feb 6 20:46:58 CET 2011


The complete list of System Real-Time Messages are:

Timing Clock F8
Undefined F9
Start FA
Continue FB
Stop FC
Undefined FD
Active Sensing FE
System Reset FF


On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:28 +0000, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just seen on the following page a claim that MIDI includes two messages for timing "Clock" (&F8) and "Tick"(&F9).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_beat_clock
> 
> I've never heard of such a thing before (Only "Clock", never "Tick") and other sources say &F9 is undefined. I can see the point of having two messages - I'd always wondered how MIDI indicated the start of a bar. But I doubt this is true.
> 
> Does anybody know about MIDI clock enough to fill me in?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
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