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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Dark Time and USB: timing

2013-06-03 by Jim Credland

Cheers Florian - I'll take it up with them.  I'm on the latest version.  Seems a shame it's so slack on that front.  It's bloody good with other things. 

For now I've cured it with the quantise button :)

On 3 Jun 2013, at 11:49, Florian Anwander wrote:

> Ableton Live is known to have an awful timing in respect to MIDI-Clock no matter whether the MIDI-protocoldata are transmitted via USB- or MIDI-hardware.
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> The latest version of live has some improvements in this regard.
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> But nevertheless: all the Ableton guys come from audio and ITB-production. They never had their scope on midi and external gear.
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> Florian
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> Am 03.06.2013 12:44, schrieb Jim Credland:
>> After a year of having one I just twigged how cool the dark time would be connected to a soft synth.  So I tried it and now have an awesome groove over a record.  However, a couple of questions:
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>> The Dark Time's timing, into Ableton, is awful.  I'm running it through USB into Ableton and it's neither precise nor accurate.  Any tips?  Does MIDI work better?  I'm on a Mac, it's plugged directly into a USB socket on the front of the computer.
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>> Secondly, it'd be great to leave it plugged in all the time but whenever I hit play on the sequencer it kicks off.  Is there some way of telling it that stop means STOP!? ;)
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>> thank you! J.
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