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Re: [elektron] recording MD midi on seperate tracks

2004-10-05 by Federico Ciapi

>
> Ok so you have your six outputs you record your midi sequence from MD
> to a Midi track in whatever your sequencer is, then you create 5 more
> midi tracks set them to MD123456 then copy your whole sequence from the
> 1 midi track to midi tracks 123456 now blow them all up and star on
> midi 1 cause thats where your kick is and delete all midi data on that
> track except the kick drum trigger pattern Then go to midi track 2
> delete all midi data except the snr trigger pattern so on and so on
> this is the best and only way to do it also when your first midi
> pattern from MD is imported to your sequencer remember to quantize that
> whole pattern so it snap to your sequncers 16th note grids then do the
> steps I mentioned above!!!!! Also when you want to burn your midi
> tracks to audio you will notice a bit of latency straying away from
> your sequencers 16th note grid you must go in and trim each audio hit
> on each of your audio tacks so that you push the attack of the waveform
> sample accurate to you grid Otherwise the latency from MD is going to
> be an issue when you use your softsynths becuase a softsynth has way
> less latency and then your timing for your song will suffer dramatic
> results so basically  time correct everything to grid you will see A
> huge improvement in you r mix as well from this but it is time
> consuming!!!!! Hope this helps regards Paul

My MD receives midi clock from Logic and it had to be delayed by 12 
samples; and latency shouldn't be an issue on the MD, it's not a 
plug-in with a buffer setting...
So, if you set up correctly your sequencer, you should be able to have 
perfectly on time MD, always.

By the way, I think that recording the patterns of the MD into midi is 
almost a non-sense.
I understand the purpose of recording midi cc, but you should record 
the audio instead of midi notes.

For the way I work (creating patterns on the MD, recording 6 audio 
tracks from the 6 outputs, then arranging the parts into Logic), it is 
an unnecessary step, but it could be useful to someone else that works 
in a different way.

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