Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi Alex,

 From what I gather the MD clock is more stable than Live. I think, 
though, that setting the MD as master will also make you start/stop from 
the MD rather than Live. Apart from that - what you aim to do should be 
achievable. Make a global setup on the MD to work as a midi master as 
well - don't ditch your old settings.

About the TRACK delay - I think you should rather work with the global 
MIDI delay setting in the options menu. Be sure to make adjustments for 
the actual midi port that you've hooked the MD to. I think track delay 
is mostly for VSTs rather than hardware (I might be wrong). On my last 
computer I fiddled a bit, but now I seem to be pretty much in sync 
without any messing with the delay settings.

Cheers,
Mikael

houseisafeeling2004 wrote:

>So, I've read about a million posts about sync issues with Ableton Live and the MD.  Trying 
>really hard to get my head around this but I just cant get the two to sync up and I'm not 
>really getting anywhere with the 'track delay' settings, I don't even know if I'm using them 
>correctly.
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>this is what I am doing...
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> powerbook, motu 828, motu microlite midi-Running ableton live 5.  Live 5 sending sync 
>out to MD.  Md is set to Tempo in --> External , Ctrl in-on. The MD displays the tempo as 
>'EXT'
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>what I want to do....
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>Play the MD in pattern mode (from the MD interface), changing stuff around on the fly, in 
>sync to audio drum loops playing with live.  I don't need to do anything in song mode/ 
>using midi to trigger the MD (yet).
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>the way I have it set up now, a solid drum loop in Live is clearly out of sync with the MD .  I 
>have tried adjusting the track delay on the audio track the MD is playing through, but have 
>not sucessfully been able to get them matched up.  
>Am I doing something wrong?  
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>is there a certain way to determine exactly what the track delay should be in a given 
>situation?  
>Would this setup be possible with the MD as master clock?  will that work?
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>will I just fiddle and fiddle and fiddle until someday I get the right settings but never 
>understand how?
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>thank you thank you thank you for any advice you could offer.
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>cheers
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>Alex
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