You can use this feature to allow Noatikl (when playing through an external MIDI device or port) to synchronise with audio playback in your favourite sequencer.

In this case, set your Noatikl MIDI input device to listen-out to the MIDI port to which you have told your sequencer to send MIDI sync information.

Then, for:

• Noatikl standalone: press the Noatikl Play button
• Noatikl plug-in: press the play button in your transport control.

Noatikl will then start and stop playing automatically in response to your pressing the play and stop buttons in the sequencer which emits the MIDI sync information!

Note: you will experience a degree of MIDI latency (i.e. all notes offset by a certain amount) and some small variation in the note playback timing (typically +/- 5 or 10ms). We are looking at ways to minimise this in later updates. If you record the Noatikl output to a MIDI file, then it is fairly easy to adjust for the latency and also quantise (if you want) the note timing.

MIDI Sync using Logic

Using Logic Pro on the Mac, you can use MidiPipe to provide the "cabling" between Noatikl and Logic.

Set-up couldn't be easier.

Set noatikl's in and out ports to MidiPipe, engage the Sync? option and hit play in noatikl.

Open Logic, set the sync option to send midi clock to the MidiPipe port and that's it really. Once you've done that, the Logic transport controls work both Noatikl and Logic - hit play in Logic and Noatikl starts composing and feeding the tracks in Logic with midi data. What you do with it then is up to you. Control the tempo of the piece live in real-time from Logic's transport. Or, if you have them, you can use a hardware transport controller!

Note for Logic 8 Users

To use MIDI sync in Noatikl AU for Logic 8:

1. Just connect-up IAC1 in the click and port layer...! i.e. remove the SUM option... if you don't use the SUM input you need to connect input ports on a port by port basis. Needs good eyesight and a steady hand if you have a lot of ports :-)
2. project MIDI sync settings to send to IAC port 2.
3. noatil file: set output IAC1, output IAC 2, sync = checked.
4. Should then work OK!