MIDI Clock Offset / Visibility & Mackie Port Mapping

[sephult]

Hello Everyone!

Been some time, and I've started to dig into a new setup which is requiring a lot of external sync.
Although things are much tighter than before with MIDI Sync, there are still some things to be desired that keep holding me back.

One of the current issues I am facing is using an Arturia Beatstep Pro and sending Usine MIDI Beat Clock to sync.
The BSP inherently is showing clocking as 10 BPM faster, and I tend to see the same thing with Ableton Live.
However...

In Ableton I am able to shift the MIDI Clock Offset and correct for any problems with the variance of the external gear/clock, etc...

Looking into this I am finding that:

-MIDI Clock should have a +/- offset per selected output port.
This should help I would think in most all cases for a more stable clock in different setups.
External variations and drift could be calibrated out finally and not be setup specific.

-MIDI Clock and some other messages (Start/Stop, etc...) are not visible in Usine even at the output port so these cannot be altered or used internally for conditional events
I think these should be at least visible at the output to allow event modifications (or even a simpler user-patchingapproach to MIDI Sync Delay/etc).

-Specific MIDI Trace to view these events
Possibly a MIDI-MSG Trace could be used to see the events so that they do not overload other common messages when looking at the MIDI chain.
To see the clock messages or system messages, then you could tap in a MIDI MSG Trace to see these.

I have also been working with a new console that runs by Mackie Control.
If anyone knows an alternate way to do this let me know...but I am starting to think that there is a need:

-Mackie Control Port Mapping (MCU/MCU XT)
It seems in most applications when setting up MCU that you are able to specify the port that is used.
In my current setup I am having problems trying to find the solution, using a Mackie d8b with 24 channels MIDI feedback seems to mirror across all ports.
Other setups I can defined a Mackie Control XT for the 2nd, 3rd, etc... bank controls. At the moment I am not sure if there is really a work around or not.

-S