Help: Midi tempo synch setup

[Laurence]

Hi everyone

I just got myself a Virus C, running OS 5.5

: )

I have a simple setup:

Digital multitrack recorder (Roland VS1680) > Keyboard (JP8000) > Virus C

I set the midi tempo on the multitrack recorder, which is set to MIDImaster and transmitting via MIDIclock. Midi is running out of there, into the keyboard, then out of the keyboard and into the Virus.

If I use the JP8000's own sounds and arpeggiator,
everything plays in synch with the tempo set on the multitrack recorder.
but when I use the JP8000 to trigger notes and arpeggios from the virus C, the virus still runs in synch with the tempo set on it's own bpm - it's not reading the midiclock information from the multitrack recorder.

The little 'c' on the Virus display, indicating external midiclock information, only lights up if I take the MIDI out directly from my multitrack recording desk into the Virus MIDI in - but then of course I have no way to trigger notes!


Anyone know -
how can I get the virus to read the tempo set in the multitrack recorder, via the JP8000?

I can match the virus tempo up manually, of course,
and shunt everything along if it's not in synch - but I want the same beating heart running through everything ~

Help much appreciated, cheers.