sammybee Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Has anybody here got any experience with a Boss RC-10r loop pedal? I bought this one specifically because it has a midi out jack and I understood it would be able to drive MIDI clock from the loop/internal rhythm. I've set it to send midi clock in the menu, however its sending nothing.. great fun just using the loops with the internal drums though. Really want it to be driving my MPC though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 I've been thinking about buying one...then not...then again. Still can't decide.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammybee Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 It's really great fun. I have it set up with a Fender ABY pedal so my daughter can play guitar & I can play bass, going back and forth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidder652003 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 19 hours ago, TheGreek said: 19 hours ago, TheGreek said: I've been thinking about buying one...then not...then again. Still can't decide.. .then not...then again. .then not...then again. .then not...then again. .then not...then again. .then not...then again. .then not...then again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ567 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 On 17/10/2021 at 21:05, sammybee said: Has anybody here got any experience with a Boss RC-10r loop pedal? I bought this one specifically because it has a midi out jack and I understood it would be able to drive MIDI clock from the loop/internal rhythm. I've set it to send midi clock in the menu, however its sending nothing.. great fun just using the loops with the internal drums though. Really want it to be driving my MPC though. How have you got it set up? I've got a dd-200 and the midi clock send is working ok. For a start, make sure you have the correct type of TRS cable for midi, there are a couple of different standards for how these are wired. Would have been so easy for manufacturers to agree on one standard, but alas... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammybee Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, AJ567 said: How have you got it set up? I've got a dd-200 and the midi clock send is working ok. For a start, make sure you have the correct type of TRS cable for midi, there are a couple of different standards for how these are wired. Would have been so easy for manufacturers to agree on one standard, but alas... Of course, I bought the cheapest one (cable) I could find from eBay! I think you've hit the nail on the head about the wiring of the cable - I've ordered the 'official' Boss cable now which I'm hoping will fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ567 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 52 minutes ago, sammybee said: Of course, I bought the cheapest one (cable) I could find from eBay! I think you've hit the nail on the head about the wiring of the cable - I've ordered the 'official' Boss cable now which I'm hoping will fix it. If the cable is a TRS mini jack to 5-pin, then that should fix it! But if the cable you need is TRS-TRS, the problem is probably that the midi input jack on whatever you are plugging into is wired differently to the output jack on the Boss. So you'll need an adapter, or a specially wired TRS cable. If that's the case, I'd try to find out what standard your "slave" device is. The boss pedal is wired like this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammybee Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 Yes I need a trs from the pedal to a 5pin din on the MPC.. I can see how it could get mighty confusing if it was trs to trs and they were different standards. We never had any of these problems when all midi interfaces / gear was on 5pin din ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammybee Posted October 20, 2021 Author Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 18/10/2021 at 21:38, AJ567 said: How have you got it set up? I've got a dd-200 and the midi clock send is working ok. For a start, make sure you have the correct type of TRS cable for midi, there are a couple of different standards for how these are wired. Would have been so easy for manufacturers to agree on one standard, but alas... Well the replacement cable didn't fix the issue. I did a factory reset on the pedal, set the sync on the pedal to internal, set the output clock to on. plugged the cable into midi out from the pedal -> midi in on my MPC (set the MPC to slave to incoming clock)... pressed play on the pedal, and no midi clock sent to MPC Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ567 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 That's a pain. I'd make sure both "sync" and "realtime source" are internal, also make sure midi transmit channel is not set to "off" for some reason. In theory the midi channel shouldn't matter for clock but might as well set both devices to the same channel. I don't know how the mpc works but make sure it is happy to receive realtime messages. Other than that I'm out of ideas... Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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