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Re: [elektron] Problems with external sync

2008-03-19 by innerclock2004

I'm not far off a very tight, tidy and cost effective solution if
you're interested...:)

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Best as always - David
www.innerclocksystems.com



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Preine
<thomaspreine@...> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> 
> first of all thanks for the quick reply :-)
> 
> On 18.03.2008, at 14:19, M-.-n wrote:
> > Midi clock and accuracy are kind of always trouble. Put on top the  
> > fact
> > that you tigger from the "slave" unit and you are bound to get flams.
> > Have you tried putting live as a master ? At least then the clock  
> > pulses
> > are more likely to be in sync with the notes you trigger.
> >
> 
> I am using Live as master already...
> 
> > The question of course is why use live to trigger sequences if you got
> > the md in front of you :)
> >
> :-)
> I've got tons of synth loops running from there...
> 
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> >> Thomas Preine a écrit :
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm a new (proud! :-)) machinedrum user and having problems getting
> >> > the MD sync to Ableton Live (or Logic Pro, tried both, no  
> >> difference).
> >> > The MD is set to external sync and the software is sending MIDI  
> >> clock,
> >> > should all be fine. I'm using clips in Live with single midi  
> >> notes to
> >> > trigger the MD's patterns, MD is inserted as external instrument  
> >> plug-
> >> > in. It doesn't work well - I always hear flams at the beginning  
> >> of a
> >> > new pattern cycle/change.
> >> > So timing-wise it's unfortunately completely unusable.. :-/
> >> > I tried adjusting all kinds of latency/compensation values like  
> >> MIDI
> >> > clock delay, track delay, etc. but nothing seems to really help.
> >> >
> >> > Is anybody using such a setup successfully? Or has any idea...?
> >> >
> >> > greetings,
> >> >
> >> > Tom
> >> >
> >> > Ableton Live 7.0.2, MD SPS-1 UW MkII, MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz, 3 GB  
> >> RAM,
> >> > 10.5.2, TM-1 as MIDI device, built-in audio
>

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