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Re: [elektron] Two questions [MD related], can anyone answer these?

2003-11-23 by frank moreno

Have you thought about a line conditioner or power conditioner? I use these
in my studio for everything. Isolates your gear.

tahvenaine2002 wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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