Elektron Musical Instruments

I don't use the SL for midi sync at all, I have a TurboMIDI or I use
the Ultralite, sorry.  Not using Cubase anymore either, Live or Logic
here (I'm on a Mac).

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:05 PM, janzer_v1
<droppinscience2000@...> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Thanks for the speedy response. It's setup right 100%. All midi
> settings are correct in all my units. Ableton will send start/stop
> messages to the MD and the MD can be triggered via Ableton.
> Unfortunately, once playback is initiated sync runs out of time and
> starts, stops, pauses briefly (milliseconds) and goes a bit haywire.
>
> As for cubase, it won't even send start/stop or timecode to the MD. I
> think something is maybe out of whack with my Novation Remote SL37 and
> cubase. Funny thing about all this is everything was ok until I worked
> the MD into it all. I've been at this for two days now and I'm nothing
> but frustrated. I've emailed Jon at Elektron tonight and I am waiting
> for his response now.
>
> I see you have a Novation Remote and MOTU ULtralite as well, at least
> it said so on your website ( I was checking out your tracks). Can you
> tell me your global settings for midi in/out/sync on the Remote just
> to make sure? If you are running cubase maybe you can tell me your
> midi settings there as well.
>
> This has turned into 24hrs from hell!
>
> Thanks for the link to the info too. I'm going through it now!
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Tarekith <Tarekith@...> wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure you have the MD set up correctly to receive midi clock?
>> In th Global menu, you have to have both tempo and ctrl in set to
>> external.  I've never had good luck getting super tight sync with
>> Ableton and my MD, but I'm surprised that Cubase is doing this too.
>> Maybe check out this thread as well:
>>
>> http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98876&highlight=midi+clocl
>>
>> There's a few more threads on the subject there too if you do a search.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:27 PM, janzer_v1
>> <droppinscience2000@...> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am having some serious sync issues with both Ableton Live 7 and
>> > Cubase SX and my MDMKII UW. Basically I can trigger sounds no sweat
>> > from either program, but I want to program drums live on my MD not the
>> > cpu sequencer.
>> >
>> > First Ableton:
>> >
>> > Timing is horrible on with Ableton. BPM seems to jump up and down and
>> > randomly stop for a brief moment and start again.  At least start and
>> > stop messages take place between ableton and MD. I have everything set
>> > up right for sure, so I'm not sure what's with the sync issues.
>> >
>> > Second Cubase SX:
>> >
>> > I can trigger all sounds no sweat, but no sync period. Start/stop
>> > messages do not work at all and tempo will not lock either. In fact,
>> > my MD won't even change to the Cubase tempo. This may be a Cubase
>> > setting issue, but before I popped the MD into the mix all was well
>> > with sync in my setup with my other synths.
>> >
>> > So if you could please help or offer advice it would be extremely
>> > helpful. My rig is as follows: CPU usb out to Novation Remote SL37 out
>> > to MD. All other synth run off the 2nd midi out of the Novation
>> > Remote. I also have a MOTU Ultralite Firewire as my soundcard and have
>> > tried the midi there with the same results. My cpu is running Vista
>> > with 4gigs of ram and has a Core 2 Duo chip at  2.5GHz if that helps.
>> > I don't think its a cpu issue as everything else locked up fine before
>> > the MD entered the equation. Maybe you can offer another way of
>> > setting this rig up? MD as master possibly with cpu syncing to it and
>> > my other gear syncing too? I will try that again, but not so sure
>> > that's the best way or that it will even work how I like.
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> >
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