Just to update the thread (and thank you for your suggestion u/armandocajide ), I’ve gone ahead with the suggestion and bought a Redsound Soundbite Micro.
It definitely syncs to audio as long (as the beats aren’t too complex) but Logic X won’t slave to it. This is either because:
- Logic listens for MMC and the SBMicro outputs plain MIDI
- I need a dedicated, updated USB MIDI interface
At the moment I’m connecting the MIDI out of the SBMicro into a MIDI in on the Korg Taktile which is connected to Logic X directly to a USB port. The Taktile works perfectly, showing but there is no response from Logic, no indicators flashing in the tempo/time sig part of the control bar.
So the next step is to find out how to convert MIDI to MMC and whether than can happen as an app, or whether it needs to be a hardware device doing the conversion.
Incidentally I think I’ll start another thread about that seeing as it’s a slightly different issue.