Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tahvenaine2002"
<toni.ahvenainen@p...> wrote:
> 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...


I just tried this method, and I get MUCH better results than I do when
trying to sync to Cubase's tempo.  After a little over a minute
(recording a BD pattern twice and comparing), the two recordings drift
to about 200 samples apart, which is MUCH better than the terrible
numbers I reported before when sync'd to Cubase.  Moreover, there is a
constant drift here--one is just a bit slower than the other, and
continues to get further behind.  This is very different from sync'ing
to Cubase, where the signal would drift back and forth--sometimes it
would be early, sometimes late.

For now I've just accepted this as a fact of life: the quickest way
I've found to correct the drift so far is to use Cubase to slice the
recording into individual hits, select all of the slices in the part
editor, and quantize.  This moves all the slices so they start exactly
on the beat.  I haven't tried this with very complicated patterns,
though.

I should note that I have also not yet tried OS 1.19B--my MD is barely
a week old, and I wanted to get a feel for it before upgrading the OS
(otherwise I probably wouldn't notice any bugs I did find!).

Thanks for all of the suggestions so far!  Keep 'em coming!

Cheers,
Dan