Elektron Musical Instruments

IMO Cubase should also allow for an exteral clock option.  The MD has 
no problems with timing.  I use it with Live but live allows me to 
select the MD as a clock source.  The MD manual even suggests that 
you should choose the MD as your master clock.  I assume the MD has 
problems this way because of the innacuracy of Midi clocks across 
different programs.  Computer clocks are innacurate depending on the 
processes.  The MD has a strict pattern form that does not allow for 
innacuracy.

Akai MPCs have a tracker like structure as opposed to the step 
structure of the MD.  This allows for more flexibility for timing (96 
steps a beat?).  I suggest you should get rid of the MD if Cubase is 
your main thing and is unworkable.  Replace it with a used mpc2000 or 
mpc2000xl.  

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "drammy2004" <martyn@r...> 
wrote:
> 
> sticky039,
> 
> Sorry I didn't reply to you PM about this.
> 
> I have pretty much given up on using the MD in slave to Cubase.  
The 
> timing is so awful and Elektron seem to bugger all to fix it!
> 
> The MD is my only piece of kit with this problem.  My set-up is 
first 
> class and certainly not at fault.  The MD still insists on 
responding 
> up to 100 samples early or late.  It is not consistent enough to 
> simply use a delay as sometimes it is early, sometimes late!
> 
> Apologies for not being any use here, I just thought I'd better 
reply 
> and let you know that I agree this is a problem and Elektron are 
NOT 
> fixing it!!!
> 
> 
> Drammy