Problem syncing MRCC MIDI clock to DAW (Reaper)

[oldgearguy]

Thanks for your response - I'll do some more research on the Midronome - the price is certainly a lot more attractive.

To clarify, with either the ERM or the Midronome, must the clock be established on the DAW and then passed through the MRCC to downstream hardware?  I'm fairly certain from checking out the Midronome forums that this is true for that device w/ Reaper, but is it also the case with the ERM?  I.e. in neither case can Reaper act as a slave to an external clock?

Yes, the MRCC will not sync to incoming clock of any type.
Not sure why you'd want that anyway,  but that's neither here nor there. 

Point is,  the MRCC will cleanly pass clocks through it from any device to any device,  so use the DAW or some external master clock and treat the MRCC like a patchbay routing ins to outs.