Elektron Musical Instruments

well, i do see the off beat-ness...i will say that.  for me, it's 
always a little ahead of the beat, doesn't seem ever behind.

at first i was dismayed.  then i realized how zoomed in i was.
at a "normal" zoom, it looks dead on...zoomed in so far that one 
sixteenth note spans my whole screen.  now i can see that basically, 
it's off a little less than a 1/128 note! no wonder i can't hear it!

so for the record, i am syncing the two, giving two bars of empty 
space first (just to let the sync get established a bit before 
recording) and recording the audio at, well, 2ms latency.  surely, 
that helps.  otherwise, i'm using a Midisport 2X2 USB midi interface.

i dunno...it is off, but such a small amount, i think i'm going to go 
with it.  i'd be curious to see how much it's off for you guys.  
spread a sixteenth note across your screen, keep halfing that distance 
to 32/64/and then 128 notes to measure how off your distance from the 
one is.

for now i think i'll go with it...  ;)

last thing though, possibly an important thing:

i tried taking off the sync from Cubase to MD and setting each to the 
same BPM, then recording.  you know what, i still have the exact same 
amount of ahead of the beatness!!!  so are we really seeing faulty 
sync or am i just seeing some small, largely unnoticeable, amount of 
latency?