Elektron Musical Instruments

> I have the MD sync'd as the slave to Cubase SX 2.2.  When recording,
> the audio is late by anywhere from 350 to 1450 samples.  That's a
> pretty high variance.  (If my calculation is correct, at 96KHz and
> 134bpm, that means it's off by as much as 1/32 note, which is
> certainly audible.)  Is there any way to improve this, or is this 
just
> inevitable because of MIDI's lack of precision?  I'm trying to avoid
> correcting it all by hand, which is time-consuming.

Hi,

I've had too some syncing problems. Here are my findings:

METHOD ONE:
This would be the best one for me. I set MD to Start and End with 
midi-clock (cubase), but I don't take tempo from it. Now I record 
every 16 drumsounds (or Pad or machine) to their individual channels. 
I mean that I get BD to one channel and SD to another and so on (so I 
mute everything other than BD for record for example). This would be 
great, BUT some odd reason things don't end up synced to cubase. For 
example I record BD to track one and then again (for sync test) to 
track 2 and I see they don't sync at all somewhere after one minute 
(and yes I've trimmed the starts to sync sample-accurate). I really 
don't understand this...

METHOD TWO:
This is the way I do it now. I set MD to take tempo too from cubase. 
BUT now I lose the perfect swing setting, because when tempo is taken 
from some other source than MD, the MD will quantize the swing to 50, 
60, 70, and 80% I guess. And yes I get some varying tempos when 
syncing outside, but things seem to align pretty good. (I talked 
about this to Daniel and he said the I shouldn't be paying attention 
to what MD shows. Maybe he ment it represents tempo some odd way). I 
would really like to use Method one, but I don't get anywhere tight 
beat that way, so it's bye bye swing... :(

There might be some ways achive better results, but I haven't done 
much research. I tried some other things too, but I can't remember 
what they were and how they worked. 

If anyone can achive tight beats with method one, I wouild love to 
hear how do you do it?

Toni