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Re: Midi Clock and MOTU Midi Timepiece AV-USB

2012-05-05 by David C.

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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