Elektron Musical Instruments

thanks Daniel...
i tried both fixes, i checked "Use System Timestamp" and verified the 
use of non-emulated ports and my sync is still the absolute same.  to 
the ear though, it doesn't sound bad...at all really.

but i do see the tempo fluctuating between like 129.3 - 130.9 when 
Cubase is set to 130.  not sure how bad this is, relatively.

well, it seems the best still would be to slave Cubase to the MD.  i 
still haven't gotten around to searching for the rumored software that 
will transform the MD clock to something Cubase can sync to...

but again, to my ears so far, it sounds fine during playback and after 
bouncing down...i'm not sure if there's reason for me to fret even, 
but sure, it'd be nice to know it's as accurate as it could be.