Elektron Musical Instruments

MIDI/USB slop???

I have an RME soundcard which as far as I am concerned is pretty damn 
good - my question is this - why do I not have this problem with any 
other external MIDI equipment?  Only the MD.


Drammy


--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "innerclock2004" <david@i...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
>  
> 
> Had to answer – straight up the problem is your computer/midi – not 
> the MD. I have personally tested the MD as a midi clock slave 
across 
> multiple multitrack audio passes over 15 minutes record time to a 
> very high precision clock master and believe me – the MD is the 
most 
> reliable hardware sequencer you will find. On average over all 
passes 
> the MD only drifts less than 0.3ms  - and as I said – this is 
running 
> the MD as a slave to a GOOD clock source.
> 
>  
> 
> Sort the Midi/USB slop out from your computer.
> 
>  
> 
> All the best.
> 
>  
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> --- 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