Elektron Musical Instruments

> Sound interesting Toni,
> 
> Thing is I don't understand this, would you mind taking a minute to 
> explain.  Apologies but I am an absolute newbie to the MD.
> 
> Drammy

Sorry for late answer, I've been away from computer. What I ment was 
this (it may or may not help you):

1. I usually do my beats in song mode (after I've done some patterns 
of course). I record them to Cubase via sync start. So no midi-clock 
sync I just get Start-command from Cubase. I found that there is some 
midi latency or something in my system. This means cubase sends start 
command sometimes a little late/early (some ms's). When I want to 
record every 16 pads to different tracks in cubase, this won't work 
correctly (tracks are not in sync with). 

2. I did try to slave MD to midi clock. I get's better like this, but 
then I loose the swing (it is quantized to 50, 60, 70, or 80%). I did 
couple of songs this way, but I didn't like to loose groove.

3. As I just want to record my pads to different tracks and MD is 
running very stable on it's own clock (well, it differs a little 
after a minute or so), I thought out to make a what I call a 'Sync-
kit'. It's kit with GND-IM (impulse) machine on every 16 pads and in 
pattern all machines are triggered one time (for example on step 
one). Then I just put 'sync-kit' to very first bar of the song and 
record every pad as a single file in cubase (I dont' even need the 
start-command). 

4. Now every 16 file has a one trigger of GND-IM machine on a start 
of a recording. Now I just align these GND-IM triggers sample 
accurate and what I get is a decent recording with good swing. 

Now as I said this may or may not help you. I you only want to record 
your MD to different tracks then its ok. If you are syncing it with 
something coming from machine, well then it's a different case. There 
is still a thing that I haven't figured out. If you record something 
like 2 minutes, then different tracks will start to loose the sync at 
the end of the record. You can demostrate this by recording for 
example a BD to cubase two times and see how they start to loose. If 
anyone has any info on this, I would like to hear..

Toni.