Elektron Musical Instruments

Well,

I hate always posting problems :(

It seems that the machinedrum has some sync problems,  mine falls out 
of sync with any of my sequencers (mobius, AW4416, MC-80).  At first 
the sync is 'OK' but a little sloppy, but then after a few measures 
the MD seems to speed up a bit and the sync goes way off.  then it 
drifts in and out of sync (mostly out of sync) the longer it plays.  
I have 5 or 6 other devices synced up to the same clock and they 
always stay very well-synced...  they are even synced using the MIDI 
thru of the machinedrum and don't have any problems!

Anyone else tried getting the MD to slave to MIDI sync yet? did it 
work well?

I guess it's a good thing you can play a whole set with only the MD :)

cheers
ripe

Yeah, I've had trouble with sync also.  I didn't read all the manual... but
I tried setting the source to both EXTERNAL 1 and EXTERNAL 2.  1 was
definitely better than 2.  At first, it was at a different speed, but after
a couple of start-stop-start-stop, it matched speeds, and sounded fine from
then on.  Weird...

And, the reported BPM on the Machinedrum was quite different from the BPM in
my sequencer... something like 112 vs. 125 (but at this point it WAS playing
in sync).

Anyways, I still LOVE the machinedrum...ELEKTRON RULES!  We're all beta
testers ... and I think we're lucky to be able to communicate directly with
Elekton and to provide input about this stuff.

Shawn Mativetsky aka nanostepper
http://www.nanostepper.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: ripe101@... [mailto:ripe101@...]
Sent: August 4, 2001 10:26 PM
To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [elektron] MD sync problems


Well,

I hate always posting problems :(

It seems that the machinedrum has some sync problems,  mine falls out
of sync with any of my sequencers (mobius, AW4416, MC-80).  At first
the sync is 'OK' but a little sloppy, but then after a few measures
the MD seems to speed up a bit and the sync goes way off.  then it
drifts in and out of sync (mostly out of sync) the longer it plays.
I have 5 or 6 other devices synced up to the same clock and they
always stay very well-synced...  they are even synced using the MIDI
thru of the machinedrum and don't have any problems!

Anyone else tried getting the MD to slave to MIDI sync yet? did it
work well?

I guess it's a good thing you can play a whole set with only the MD :)

cheers
ripe





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Yeah, I had sync problems as well, getting my mpc to feed the MD just
doesn\ufffdt seem to work... It\ufffds strange as the mpc should have a very stable
clock, but the MD makes "jumps" in the tempo ..
The funny thing is , I synced up the MD to a Oberheim DX /w stretch and it
was soo tight !!!! very strange! I used external2 with the oberheim.

daniel