Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi,

1.
I found out that MD seems to be very sensitive for electric peaks. I 
have my MD connected to grounded powersource, but I sitll get peaks 
which ends up to cubase tracks whenever my fridge starts or someone 
turns the light off in our building!! And I think it's from MD, if I 
pull it off compleatly the peaks dissapper. It's definetlty the 
electric power thing. Does anyone know waht I can do about this?? UPS 
maybe or what?

2.
I have tried to connect my MD and MM to cubase the way which would be 
nice to work with. Cubase SX (1.06) sends the midi clock to MM and MD 
and these take it as transport control (play, stop, continue). I have 
set MD and MM to internal sync, so they take the bpm from their own 
sequencer. Everything runs nicely, but.. I assume it takes a litte 
time to transport-message to hit the machines, because they always 
end up starting a little late. I have set my latency to 1.5 ms (rme) 
and if it would only be 1.5 ms I wouldn't mind, but it's clearly more 
something like above 30 ms and I can hear for example the snare being 
far from where it should be. Annoying, when try to layer stuff from 
cubase sx and MD/MM. Does anyone know how to solve this? Can you set 
the midiclock to start a little bit earlier? Or should I buy 
something like Midex8 or something... I haven't found out anything 
like this from the manual of cubase sx, maybe I have missed something?

Toni.