[sdiy] midi clock to GATE (or trigger) converter with Arduino???

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:23:42PM -0500, dan snazelle wrote:
> so what I am wondering is how hard it would be to find and or write a sketch to take MIDI clock from a sequencer like Logic and convert it into gates that would clock my 
> MFB sequencer or any other clock able module

Trivial.

Just do a serial.read and look for the midi clock status byte.  Keep a
counter since the clock is on quarter notes, and toggle your chosen output
pin as needed.  Maybe a little more work to make certain you toggle that pin
the right length of time but still shouldn't be a huge deal.

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