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Hi Steve,

thanks again for your kind help. I have my CS for 7 years, albeit I used it only for music.

The situation is changed now. I use the CS for VJ work, purely as a sequencer. For now I'm not interested in sound generation features.

I use the sequencer, MIDI, controller, arp and live control features.

I use pattern mode exclusively. Song mode would be used for complete shows or "visual short stories", but that will be in the future.

I need solid MIDI timing. The CS is a letdown in this regard. For years I used it happily for music, in an all hardware setup

and the MIDI jitter didn't bother me at all. My sequences were much dense, for sure, and in live settings wasn't important.

But let's put music away for now.

I use a VJ app, which is MIDI controllable. It is capable of MIDI sync, BUT can't act as master (cannot send MIDI Clock).

This app, when slaved to the CS, displays horrible MIDI jitter. The really sore point is the music.

+/- few BPM jitter would be practically unrecognizable in pictures, but causes havoc in the underlying music.

It's very recognizable, unmusical, and brakes the whole audiovisual experience.

Regards,

Zsolt

2017-10-28 20:49 GMT+02:00 smw-mail@... [xl7] <xl7@yahoogroups.com>:

I use SPP mostly years before I got my P2500; so, I have almost no experience with it on e-mu gear. Maybe someone else can. I';d recommend asking Balma (and others) at his tutorial thread at gearslutz in addition to people who might know here. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/942396-e-mu-command-station-xl-7-mp-7-pk-7-proteus-2500-tutorials.html

For midi sync with SONAR (and assorted gear), I always have the P2500 as midi clock master. For me OS 2.0 solved midi clock issues with earlier OSes. Also, I love being able to use the knob on the P2500 to send the BPM midi clock to gear--even across a long distance (15-20 feet?) and through a midi router.

I believe the update of the BPM clock in the E-Mu display is a lesser priority than playing track data. Just my gut opinion, not official knowledge of any sort.

A few years ago, I tested an arduino as master midi clock to the P2500 pushing it to the max (300 BPM). With regular midi clock, the sync was fine.

If it's still an issue, maybe over Thanksgiving (end of November), I can do some testing with SONAR and SPP. I might be able to do a simple test sooner. I assume your E-Mu is in Song mode (not pattern mode). Am I right? I cannot wrap my head around SPP working in pattern mode.

Steve

Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Re: [xl7] Re: Command Station confusion

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