Play, MIDI, Transport Controls and AUM - Troubleshooting

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I want to use the Polyend Play as transport control for AUM. This should be simple but I seem to be missing something. AUM is not catching the MIDI messages from Play. When I look at MidiSpy I see the messages are:

|9123: | CH0 || START|
|9124: | CH0 || STOP|

What is MIDI channel 0 and are Start and Stop normal MIDI commands?

Any help would be appreciated.

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I think it’s probably an AUM issue? Reach out to the developer Jonatan, he’s very responsive.

I’ve had success using AUM to start other devices, but never the other way around,

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It is a AUM issue. I’m actually kinda suprised as I’ve always found AUM to be capable of doing whatever I need. AUM has two big issues that relate to midi transport control:

  1. It cannot detect Start/Stop
  2. It will not accept external midi clock

Number 2 is the biggest surprise as this seems like core functionality. The fix that I found was to simply use Drambo. I just got it to listen for the Plays midi clock and it just worked.

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