shoelesscraig
Well-Known Member
This was kind of talked about in another thread, but just so it's easy to find, I figured I'd put it here...
I had issues with the Strymon Timeline and Midi clock. Specifically, the Timeline works fine when sent a tempo of say 80 BPM or 81 BPM...but if you tried to send it 80.5 BPM, it would just bounce between 80 and 81 (even though it's capable of showing a fractional number). You can obviously manually program a preset with 80.5, but it wouldn't do it for Midi Clock.
(Note, I used 80.5 as an example above...but I'm talking about ANY tempo that is not a whole number, on any algorithm...55.5 is a problem...so is 99.5).
I contacted Strymon and was told (paraphrasing) "yep, we were able to recreate your problem...but we're not going to fix it. Just don't program half tempos". I've contacted Strymon an a couple of issues over the years like this and this is the response I get (usually). After spending $450+ on a delay pedal, you'd think the customer service would be great. I understand that we're talking a half a BPM here...I get it. But, again, super expensive pedal on a board with a PBC...I should be able to do that. Unless I'm wrong, other pedals work fine with Midi Clock and fractional tempo.
Whatever....rant over! Just thought someone else may run into this...
I had issues with the Strymon Timeline and Midi clock. Specifically, the Timeline works fine when sent a tempo of say 80 BPM or 81 BPM...but if you tried to send it 80.5 BPM, it would just bounce between 80 and 81 (even though it's capable of showing a fractional number). You can obviously manually program a preset with 80.5, but it wouldn't do it for Midi Clock.
(Note, I used 80.5 as an example above...but I'm talking about ANY tempo that is not a whole number, on any algorithm...55.5 is a problem...so is 99.5).
I contacted Strymon and was told (paraphrasing) "yep, we were able to recreate your problem...but we're not going to fix it. Just don't program half tempos". I've contacted Strymon an a couple of issues over the years like this and this is the response I get (usually). After spending $450+ on a delay pedal, you'd think the customer service would be great. I understand that we're talking a half a BPM here...I get it. But, again, super expensive pedal on a board with a PBC...I should be able to do that. Unless I'm wrong, other pedals work fine with Midi Clock and fractional tempo.
Whatever....rant over! Just thought someone else may run into this...