so this has gone live for second timeā¦this time its met funding immediately.
itās now 109 euros at vip pricing, or 149 early bird.
expected delivery: March 2023
tip: you want want to sign up via https://www.midronome.com, as they may still be offering VIP pricing that way
its gone up in price from the first time, but going over the features etc, it does seem to be a bit more developed nowā¦ and still quite a bit cheaper than the ERM MultiClock which is its obvious competitor.
the E-RM MultiClock has 4 outputs, this has 2ā¦ and more control over offsets.
for me this was a bit overkill.
my plan is pretty much to use this for 2 reasonsā¦
- improve sync with Mac
- have a central clock that is āalways onā
honestly, I get very little jitter on my Mac , so its not going to make a huge difference to me on improving sync, but its one less thing to think about.
the main reason is a central clockā¦
I use my hardware setup in one of 3 ways (more really, but lets say 3)
- Standalone - Hapax is master
- DAW (Mac) - DAW is master, Hapax + others slaved.
- Modular + Octatrack - minimal setup, where OT is master.
the āissueā here, is in each of these setups I have to dig in and start changing settingsā¦
itās not hard, but I have to remember to do it and think about how I want to set things up.
with the Midrnome, Iāll just have it plugged into my iConnectivity mioXM to feed everything.
then my Mac/DAW will feed the midronome.
so IF the daw is running, midronome will just feed the clock everywhere, if notā¦ then the midronome will create the clock.
so I never have to change the clock settings on any other device
I had considered doing this with an ERM MultiClock, but the price put me offā¦ esp, as I didnāt need the 4 outputs., Iām really only going to use ONE, to the mioXM.
also, Im not sure, how much I really need it, but at this price its kind of āworth a puntā
(of course, I should noteā¦ the ER-M MultiClock is highly recommended, and very much provenā¦ this we wont know how it stacks up until its delivered, but again , Im willing to give it a go!)