Elektron Musical Instruments

I've been using my machinedrum synced ast ath timecode
for cubase. It is definitely a littlte quirky (for me
at least). I've gotten results using different
combinations.

You just have to set the syncronization in cubase, so
that the gear what you want the machinedrum to sync
out is checked. As well you have to set the master
clock to (external).. fildding with those parameters
will usually get you somewhere.. But its definitely
quirky (IMHO)

Dave

 

Message: 9
   Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:56:26 -0000
   From: "oldmanfury" <erinys@...>
Subject: timecode

Greetings,

Somebody out there must know how to set up the
following:

I have an MD song that I want to play and sync it up
to Pro52 (VSTI) 
in Cubase VST.  I have gotten the thing working pretty
well, and am 
trying to iron out the final few bugs.  Pressing
play/stop on the MD 
starts up and stops Cubase (so Sync CTRL seems to
work). 

I have set the elektron global sync as follows:
Sync Tempo In : Internal
Sync CTRL In : ON
Sync Out : ON

I checked in Midi-ox, and the MD is spitting out
timecode, and Cubase 
does its best to sync to it, but the tempo fluctuates
100... 101... 
and watching the time value shows that it 'hiccups'
and actually 
goes "backwards" in time.  i.e.  00:00:42:03,
00:00:41:16, 
00:00:44:20.  This causes the VSTI to miss notes...
and I'm not 
talking about little 32nd notes, I'm talking about 6
beat long pad 
notes.

What I really need is for somebody who has gotten
their box to drive 
Cubase to post the SYNC parameters.  The MD manual is
pretty useless 
for this... it says nothing about frame rates.

Specifically, for the Sync source, "Midi timecode"
seems the most 
likely choice.  What is MMC?  ASIO2.0/MMC?  And
Framerate - I guess 
this is for tape/video editing, but what is the
setting for the MD?
24, 25, 24.97, 24.97dfs???

I have tried many combinations, but damnit, it keeps
dropping notes.  
Processor power is not the issue here - I'm at 10%. 
The Midisport 
4x4 might be a problem... but it seems to be doing
what it should.

Any help is much appreciated.

-gerald

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