Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sep 1, 2004, at 4:25 PM, drammy2004 wrote:

>  It isn't USB.  I understand what you are saying but none of my other
>  MIDI devices have bad sync with Cubase's MIDI clock.

ok.  the MD's pretty sensitive to clock signals, so I was just thinking 
that if
the clock coming from your computer was drifting, it might affect the 
MD.

>  Yes

ok.  nevermind; I was just trying to take a wild stab at it :-)

>   Has no-one else experienced this apart from Pandersuperstar and
>  myself?

no, others have reported it before.

I don't use Cubase.  however, I've synced the MD to Ableton Live with
absolutely no problems.  and this was with the audio going through a
not-so-great USB interface (emagic a6|2m) and the MIDI coming from
a device connected to the hub USB ports on that interface (which
you're really not supposed to do).  I've also synced Ableton to the
MD with no problems.  so maybe exporting clock signal is not such
a high priority for Cubase; and the MD, being sensitive to clock, is
affected by this?

you might want to try a MIDI monitor utility to see when the clock is
leaving your machine.  if the utility had a ms measure of when each
clock event happened, that would be ideal.  if it's leaving your
machine late, then the MD's not at fault.

also, have you tried *only* sending "start" to the MD and then just 
letting
both of them run their own clocks?

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