[LAU] midi mtc sync from network to midi box on linux

Donovan Nye donovan.nye at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 16:53:30 EST 2010


hello all,

I am thinking about using a linux box to relay midi sync from my control
room to players in my live room via a network connection. control room is
about 50' or so from the live room so the network seems like the best
solution. I have a local gigabit network between the rooms so I don't think
bandwidth will be an issue. I am looking at a network to midi util like
multimidicast running on a linux box in the live room to capture the udp
midi beats from my os x server in the mix room. The linux/relay box would be
connected via usb to a 4x4 midi box (or 8x8 if needed) and ideally it would
pass the mtc from the network to the midi outs on the midi box and then
players in the room could use traditional midi cables to sync up.

Realtime linux seems like the right choice for this as it would be nice to
just use it like a lights out server on the network and manage it from my
laptop. It seems like jackd is what I would use to pull this off with audio
but I am not sure about the midi. and also not sure about the network to
alsa to jack to midibox latency.

Has anyone else done something like this for a cheap but reliable sync
solution?

thanks!!
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