Elektron Musical Instruments

Thats great Toni,

Thanks for the response and I will give it a go for sure.

As for the timing going out I agree, if anyone has any info on this 
then please share it.

Thanks again

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