I added a new item to the FAQ which I think bears pointing out since it’s a bit of a hair-puller:

Q: I’m trying to sync with another app but it’s playing at 2x the speed!

A: To understand why this is happening, you need to understand a bit about virtual MIDI ports. Genome creates it’s own Virtual MIDI port and will show up in other apps as ‘Genome’. Other apps will also generally create their own ports too and will show up in Genome’s list of MIDI destinations. If you have another app accept midi from the ‘Genome’ virtual port AND you choose to send MIDI to that App from within Genome, then you will be sending double MIDI messages. Either don’t accept MIDI from ‘Genome’ within the app or turn off that App’s virtual MIDI connection in Genome to fix the issue. It’s unintuitive, I know. Ideally all other apps would create their own I/O ports but Genome would not (that way you just pick within Genome which apps to send to), but there are some apps that don’t have their own virtual I/O’s (like Animoog) which is why Genome has it’s own virtual output port.

Another reason for double MIDI messages or messed up timing could be because you are using the Network session and virtual ports at the same time. If possible, use the virtual ports instead of the Network session, because it will have lower latency.

In other news – there is a new update to Genome coming soon. Just putting the finishing touches on it this weekend.