Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi Dave,

I suspect that I was the one who put this thought in your mind - over 
on the Sunesha Access Virus forum - right?

Anyway,

Just to put the record straight - I have found that the MD timing is 
spot on and in an ideal world I would set the MD as the Master and 
slave Cubase to it - thing is Cubase won't sync to an external MIDI 
Clock - not good - anyone know if this is likely to change???

So my only alternative (other than changing to a hardware sequencer, 
which I don't really want to do because of the advantages Cubase gives 
me) is to sync the MD to the MIDI clock of Cubase.

This is where the problem arises that I highlighted on the Virus 
forum.  When I record the output of the MD (notes sequenced by Cubase) 
into Cubase I find the timing appauling.  If I just have a 4/4 beat 
with just a kick sound and then look at the wav file, some of the kicks 
lie infront of the beat by anything up to 300 samples whilst other 
kicks may be behind the beat by the same amount, there is no 
consistency in it.

Now I know the problem is the PC and Cubase and I also know it is going 
to be the same with any software running on any platform where the 
software is acting as the Master MIDI Clock.

I have heard of one workaround which involves the MD being the master 
sending a MIDI Clock into the PC.  There is then some software (I can't 
remember the name) that reads the MIDI Clock and converts it to SMPTE, 
which I believe Cubase can sync to.

Has anyone heard of this or ever achieved it - my attempts have failed 
as the software hogs the MIDI port and then Cubase won't see it.


I hope this has shed some light on the reported issue and I hope Cubase 
sort out the external MIDI clock sync, cause at the end of the day that 
is the cause of the issue!


Drammy

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "dvking_uk" <dvking_uk@y...> 
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?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.