Elektron Musical Instruments

> 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...

Yes, I've experienced this too.
I've been trying different methods of syncing the MD to my Akai DPS24
multitrack recorder and when I let the MD ( with the old OS ) run on
internal clock and make two recordings on my multitrack recorder, and make
sure both recordings start at the exact same time, after a while both
recordings run out of sync. 

I've tried syncing the MD to the DPS24. This gives even worse results.

The following method gives me the best sync :
- MD uses internal clock
- I let Cubase sync to the DPS24. 
- I set BPM the same on MD as on Cubase. 
- On each bar I let Cubase trigger a MD pattern

This way, when I make two identical recordings and listen both tracks back I
only hear some phasing effects - never do I hear sounds being triggered
twice, as I would using the other method's I've tried.

Of course this method has some drawbacks ( handling mutes for example )