Elektron Musical Instruments

Make sure you don't have a midi feedback loop happening too.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:38 AM, verstaerker
<verstaerker@...> wrote:
> sounds to me like there's an USB-midi issue with Vista
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> can u check if the same happens with other Midigear?
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> Tarekith schrieb:
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>> 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@...
>> <mailto:droppinscience2000%40hotmail.com>> 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
>> <mailto:elektron-users%40yahoogroups.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
>> <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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