Please email this to Hologram Electronics Hologram (support@hologramelectronics.com) Would be great if they could do something about it.
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They have stopped updating the OS. Its been the same for over two years (mine is on the latest).
I emailed support in Feb 2023 and they told me the sequencer needs restarting to sync on the â1â otherwise it will still read midi clock but out of sync.
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I regularly see people complaining about MIDI sync but i never experienced anything like that when using it with my OT.
Could the problem come from the gear giving the MIDI clock?
PS: on a side note, the fact Hologram never adressed some obvious flaws and chose instead to spam potential customers thru YT influencers made me totally question the trust in the brand. I love the product but taking customers for fools once they joined the boat is a big red flag for me.
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The MIDI clock stuff is unfortunately pretty common with most pedal loopers and one of the reasons my Microcosm doesnât get a lot of use in my studio.
I donât know if it is doing this for sure, but it seems like it âsamplesâ the MIDI clock tempo at the start and just runs its own clock based on that tempo, causing eventual drift. The drift is harder to notice/care about if you have it set to ambient mush, which I think a lot of people use it for that, but that gets same-y and the reverb is not the strong suit.
Iâm honestly close to selling mine, I think.
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Not in my case. The ERM Multiclock is the most stable clock on the home studio market. Itâs so solid with everything I clock in my studio but the Microcosm has its fingers in ears.
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Yes me too. Iâve got one thing left to try with it - acoustic guitar.
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please share your thoughts after the acoustic guitar session
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Iâm using it even on stage with the needs of precisely timed FX, never had an issue.
One thing to notice though: one must adapt the playing especially with some of the algorithms which start to repeat only after the input doesnât detect any more sound.
Interesting. I have experienced some oddities with mine, and resigned myself not to use it as a looper because it just wasnât easy to work with in that way. But Iâve gotten quite a bit of inspiration from it as a sort of âchaoticâ delay unit. I typically use it for rhythmic effects, so accurate MIDI sync is quite important.
I just tried starting my sequencer and watching the Microcosm. Light was blinking in time with the music/sequencer. Then I cycled through 4 or 5 different presets. The light stays synced each time. If youâre saying that the midi clock almost always goes out of sync when changing presets, that doesnât seem to be the case with my unit.
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Iâm starting to think there could be a lot of faulty units out there, but the chaos it delivers has everyone unaware.
Itâs really easy to see on mine.
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Yes sadly thatâs exactly what Iâm saying. A stop start will rectify the issue, which the guys from Hologram have also confirmed.
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There is a new Microcosm Editor which also allows you to control the looper of the Microcosm pedal in detail. Looks very promising:
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This thing is niiiice. Didnât love the black edition, but this one I Iove.
Too bad I already have one and donât need another lol
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Think this edition is lovely!
That said, I wish theyâd spend the time listening to the fair amount of feedback from owners and maybe making some tweaks. Not to be super salty about it!
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Yeah I really had expected some firmware updates with a few new features when buying it.
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personally, I buy things based upon features theyâre advertised as having, not in the hope that theyâll have new features in the future. but if those donât work - like some people have midi sync problems with the Microcosm - itâs perfectly fine to expect them to be fixed.
not every company is like Elektron and adds new features to older devices over time. especially pedal companies. theyâre more likely to release a mk2 version with new features than they are to add those to the mk1.
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I think part of the problem is that they didnât add a USB port to the Microcosm like they did for the Chroma Console. So for anyone to update it, you need to buy one of those USB -> MIDI converter dongle things.
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I thought, why would you post a glitched screenshot of a video and not an actual product shot 
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