Thank-you to everyone helping with this. I have narrowed the problem down to the MTP and it's link to windows. If I hook the MP-7 and the KS-5 to the midi ports of the MTP and set the MP-7 as the master and the KS-5 as the slave, the clock comes through fine with the temp of the KS-5 arps syncing to the MP-7 tempo, the reverse works as well. Prior to my initial post I had done quite a bit of testing with the routing and muting in clockworks. If I connect everything via the midi ports of the MTP all works well. It's when I introduce the laptop and USb that things get all wonky. Since midi clock is a realtime message, it is passed from the in or in's to all outs unless muted. When I try to send the MP-7 clock into windows via the MTP, it gets lost. This would make it impossible to slave Cubase or Live to the MP-7 L. Either my MTP is fubar or MOTU really hates Windows and Windows users. I have a couple of older parallel versions so I will dig them out of storage and see if they work. Luckily I am using an older toughbook with an LPT port. I upgraded the USB MTP firmware to 2.0.1 so I could network it with one of the parallel versions for a super 16x16 interface but I could never get it to work under windows. The big dream was to optimize this setup for live use with the MTP providing the routings, the MP-7 as the brain and multiple controllers running multiple synths. Multiple arps, sequencers and synths running near the point of chaos allowing for instant variation. The clock was the only thing I needed stable and the majority of the setup was hardware with the PC running EmuX2 as a sampler, a few cool VST's and effects. Oh well, maybe back to the drawing board. I still feel the MP-7 is the key to keeping the mayhem in check as it is so immediate and instantly controllable.
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Re: Midi Clock and MOTU Midi Timepiece AV-USB
2012-05-05 by David C.
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