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My electronic keyboard is periodically sending MIDI's real time clock messages, which I would like to use as a metronome in a program's of mine that sends out MIDI events to the keyboard (the purpose of this program is auto-accompaniment based on score). I get 6 such messages per quarter-note. The only thing is I couldn't find a way to set the keyboard tempo (in BPM) programmatically, that is by sending a set-tempo MIDI message from my program to the keyboard. Such a kind of message is only supported in a MIDI file and probably cannot be send on the wire. How can change the clock frequency without this feature? Changing it manually on the keyboard is unpractical.



PS: I'm on Linux and am using blocking ALSA's snd_rawmidi_read to read bytes from the keyboard in a loop, so to synchronize my program.










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  • This depends on the keyboard.
    – CL.
    Nov 13 '18 at 9:55










  • Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
    – Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
    Nov 14 '18 at 18:09
















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My electronic keyboard is periodically sending MIDI's real time clock messages, which I would like to use as a metronome in a program's of mine that sends out MIDI events to the keyboard (the purpose of this program is auto-accompaniment based on score). I get 6 such messages per quarter-note. The only thing is I couldn't find a way to set the keyboard tempo (in BPM) programmatically, that is by sending a set-tempo MIDI message from my program to the keyboard. Such a kind of message is only supported in a MIDI file and probably cannot be send on the wire. How can change the clock frequency without this feature? Changing it manually on the keyboard is unpractical.



PS: I'm on Linux and am using blocking ALSA's snd_rawmidi_read to read bytes from the keyboard in a loop, so to synchronize my program.










share|improve this question






















  • This depends on the keyboard.
    – CL.
    Nov 13 '18 at 9:55










  • Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
    – Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
    Nov 14 '18 at 18:09














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My electronic keyboard is periodically sending MIDI's real time clock messages, which I would like to use as a metronome in a program's of mine that sends out MIDI events to the keyboard (the purpose of this program is auto-accompaniment based on score). I get 6 such messages per quarter-note. The only thing is I couldn't find a way to set the keyboard tempo (in BPM) programmatically, that is by sending a set-tempo MIDI message from my program to the keyboard. Such a kind of message is only supported in a MIDI file and probably cannot be send on the wire. How can change the clock frequency without this feature? Changing it manually on the keyboard is unpractical.



PS: I'm on Linux and am using blocking ALSA's snd_rawmidi_read to read bytes from the keyboard in a loop, so to synchronize my program.










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My electronic keyboard is periodically sending MIDI's real time clock messages, which I would like to use as a metronome in a program's of mine that sends out MIDI events to the keyboard (the purpose of this program is auto-accompaniment based on score). I get 6 such messages per quarter-note. The only thing is I couldn't find a way to set the keyboard tempo (in BPM) programmatically, that is by sending a set-tempo MIDI message from my program to the keyboard. Such a kind of message is only supported in a MIDI file and probably cannot be send on the wire. How can change the clock frequency without this feature? Changing it manually on the keyboard is unpractical.



PS: I'm on Linux and am using blocking ALSA's snd_rawmidi_read to read bytes from the keyboard in a loop, so to synchronize my program.







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  • This depends on the keyboard.
    – CL.
    Nov 13 '18 at 9:55










  • Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
    – Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
    Nov 14 '18 at 18:09


















  • This depends on the keyboard.
    – CL.
    Nov 13 '18 at 9:55










  • Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
    – Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
    Nov 14 '18 at 18:09
















This depends on the keyboard.
– CL.
Nov 13 '18 at 9:55




This depends on the keyboard.
– CL.
Nov 13 '18 at 9:55












Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
– Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
Nov 14 '18 at 18:09




Yep, mine is a Yamaha PSR 443 and unfortunately the MIDI manual confirms this is unimplemented (it.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/3/331293/…). I think the MIDI standard is missing this basic feature.
– Antonio Bonifati 'Farmboy'
Nov 14 '18 at 18:09












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