Midi

macOS menu bar app — bridges Ableton Link to a MIDI clock output to sync hardware sequencers (Novation Circuit Tracks et al.) to djay Pro / Mixxx / Ableton Live.

The itch My home DJ rig runs djay Pro, Mixxx, or Ableton Live depending on the session — all three speak Ableton Link, so tempo stays consistent across apps on the same machine. The problem is my Novation Circuit Tracks. It’s a hardware sampler and step sequencer whose only tempo input is MIDI clock: 24 pulses per quarter note over USB. It has no knowledge of Ableton Link. The gap meant tap-tempo every time I started a set, and then again mid-mix whenever the Circuit drifted a few milliseconds behind the laptop. Tap-tempo is the wrong solution — it trades a solved synchronisation problem for a manual one. What I needed was something that joins the Link session, reads the current tempo, and feeds it to the Circuit as a continuous MIDI clock stream. ...