Elektron Musical Instruments

i for one don't buy into everyone's idea that using the internal 
sequencer in the MD is the best way.  and yes, you can set Cubase to 
be the master and MD as the slave and it works fine.  just needs a bit 
of working with.

i'm using Cubase and the MD as well.  if you ask me, the best thing is 
to program your patterns in the MD.  now you can use the step 
sequencer and parameter locks.  so what do you lose out on by not 
using the MD's Song Mode?  that i'd like to know.

so trigger your MD patterns in Cubase using QUE mode (i've found it 
syncs the best).  now you can of course also automate the MD like mad 
using Cubase.  can you automate with the internal MD sequencer?  i 
don't think so.

i used the think it wasn't possible to sync these two, heard a lot of 
horror stories, but you have to work with it a bit.  you may want to 
read this:

http://www.elektron-users.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?
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