Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, niall munnelly <aleph@a...> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:28:33PM -0000, dvking_uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > New to this forum so hello. I'm thinking of getting a 
machinedrum but 
> > was wondering about MIDI sync issues with Cubase. I run Cubase 
SL at 
> > the moment with an Audiophile 2496 soundcard. Does anyone know 
if 
> > there are issues to do with the machinedrum being a few samples 
behind 
> > and not completely in sync with everything else in Cubase. If 
so, are 
> > there any fixes or workarounds?
> 
> define everything else - other synths?  audio files?
> softsynths?  if the latency comes in relation to softsynths
> and such, then you need to make cubase compensate for the
> delay introduced by your soundcard, which someone on a
> cubase mailing list would be well-equipped to explain.
> 
> -- 
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> niall.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I have a couple of synths (Microwave XT 
and Jomox Mbase) and a few softsynths like Absynth that I run in 
Cubase SL. Everything records and plays back in sync fine, but I've 
heard there are issues with the Machinedrum being up to 300 samples 
in front or behind on recordings and this is down to Cubase not 
having external MIDI clock capabilities. The synths I have receive 
sequenced MIDI data from Cubase into their MIDI in ports and the 
sound fed is out of the audio outs back into the soundcard on the 
PC. This works fine at the moment but I was wondering if there would 
be any issues if I set the Machinedrum up in the same way. Would 
this work? Would I be able to get the best out of the Machinedrum in 
this way?

Cheers,

Dave.