Elektron Musical Instruments

I have a few synths (virus indigo, alesis a6, roland fantom s), a elektron MD 
and use digital performer on a mac as a sequencer.  I have a motu midi 
timepiece AV.  I want to sync the drum machine and all the keyboards so 
drum machine and all synth arpeggiators are insync.  How do I do it?
Thanks
David

MD as midi sync master - use a high quality hardware/passive midi thru
box and run all you other devices including Performer star-connected
off the MD Clock. What OS are you running? - You may have to negaive
offset your Soft Synths and Performer midi data depending on how good
your Mac Midi setup is.... Audio Latency will always be an issue with
computers - the midi stuff can be made to behave eneough to live with
if you spend the time. Whatever you do - don't make the Mac be the
Clock Master! Hardware (good hardware) will always outclass software
generated midi clock.



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "davidcliffordbrown"
<davidcliffordbrown@y...> wrote:
> I have a few synths (virus indigo, alesis a6, roland fantom s), a
elektron MD 

> and use digital performer on a mac as a sequencer.  I have a motu midi 
> timepiece AV.  I want to sync the drum machine and all the keyboards so 
> drum machine and all synth arpeggiators are insync.  How do I do it?
> Thanks
> David

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:10:46AM -0000, davidcliffordbrown wrote:
> I have a few synths (virus indigo, alesis a6, roland fantom s), a elektron MD 
> and use digital performer on a mac as a sequencer.  I have a motu midi 
> timepiece AV.  I want to sync the drum machine and all the keyboards so 
> drum machine and all synth arpeggiators are insync.  How do I do it?

read part ten of the digital performer 4.5 manual,
"synchronization".  it may be a different part in
earlier versions.

in a nutshell, you can transmit midi beat clock to your
devices' ports {be sure to set them to external clock} from DP, or
you can have DP receive sync from one of the devices {i find
that the machinedrum is well suited for this} and echo
received sync to other ports.

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thanks for the quick info guys
david



--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "innerclock2004" <david@i...> wrote:

> MD as midi sync master - use a high quality hardware/passive midi thru
> box and run all you other devices including Performer star-connected
> off the MD Clock. What OS are you running? - You may have to negaive
> offset your Soft Synths and Performer midi data depending on how good
> your Mac Midi setup is.... Audio Latency will always be an issue with
> computers - the midi stuff can be made to behave eneough to live with
> if you spend the time. Whatever you do - don't make the Mac be the
> Clock Master! Hardware (good hardware) will always outclass software
> generated midi clock.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "davidcliffordbrown"
> <davidcliffordbrown@y...> wrote:
> > I have a few synths (virus indigo, alesis a6, roland fantom s), a
> elektron MD 
> > and use digital performer on a mac as a sequencer.  I have a motu midi 
> > timepiece AV.  I want to sync the drum machine and all the keyboards so 
> > drum machine and all synth arpeggiators are insync.  How do I do it?
> > Thanks
> > David