Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello,

Sorry for yelling the headline, but I figured somebody might someday 
search this and would see it better if it's typed with capitals. Here 
are my working settings from MD and Nuendo(2). I tried to include 
everything that I thought might have some issue with syncing. I'll 
just copy+paste what I wrote and gathered at home today:


HOW IT WORKS:
MD gets Midi Start-command from Nuendo and starts playing ok (MD 
syncs to internal-clock). Sync is ok under minute or two. After then 
it starts to fail (when recording every pad to different tracks. This 
can be also confirmed when recording one pad two times to different 
tracks; tracks start to loose sync somewhere between 1-2 minutes). MD 
signal hits to Nuendo file at 25 ms late, so 12 ms a soundcard 
latency and 13 ms somekind of MIDI and MD start latency. This 25 ms 
must be cutted off at the start of every recorded file. After then 
everything hits ok. When cutting the tracks it may look like there is 
a difference in ms, don't mind it, after cutting everything should 
play fine. All in all a workable setup (for recording that is. If 
doing sync with other material from computer turn latency down. At 
3ms its very workable even with MD-start latency (13ms or so). 
Getting sync from Nuendo (MD sync set to External) works too, but 
looses swing (it's quantized to 50, 60, 70 or 80%)). 


COMPUTER:
Athlon proseccor with Sis-chipset mainboard.
Soundcard = RME Multiface (Driver 2.6.2.0)
ACPI Uniprocessor PC = On (Installed as Acpi machine)
2 Usb ports Enabled


SOUNDCARD SETTINGS:
Buffer Size (Latency) = 512 (12ms)
System Clock = Master (44.1 Khz)


MD SETUP:
Global -> Midi -> Local ctrl = On
Global -> Sync -> Tempo in = Internal
Global -> Sync -> Ctrl in = On
Global -> Sync -> Tempo Out = Off
Global -> Sync -> Ctrl out = Off


NUENDO SETUP:
ignoreportfilter-file copied to \Nuendo2\ -Folder

Preferences
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Midi Thru Active = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Reset on Part End = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Reset on Stop = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Length Adjustment = -2 Ticks
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Note = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Poly Pressure = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Controller = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Program Change = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Aftertouch = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Pitchbend = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Chase Event -> Sysex = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI -> Midi Display resolution: 1/16 = 120 
Ticks PPQBase: 480

File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Note = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Poly Pressure = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Controller = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Program Change = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Aftertouch = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Pitchbend = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Record -> Sysex = On

File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Note = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Poly Pressure = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Controller = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Program Change = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Aftertouch = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Pitchbend = Off
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Thru -> Sysex = On
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Channels -> Nothing selected
File -> Preferences -> MIDI Filter -> Controller -> BankSel MSB 
(AllNoteOff)

File -> Preferences -> Record -> Audio Cycle Record Mode = Create 
Regions
File -> Preferences -> Record -> Create Audio Images During Record = 
On
File -> Preferences -> Record -> Snap Midi Parts to Bars = On
File -> Preferences -> Record -> Solo Record in MIDI Editors = On
File -> Preferences -> Record -> MIDI Record Catch Range in ms = 100 
ms
File -> Preferences -> Record -> Retrospective Record = On
File -> Preferences -> Record -> Retrospective Record Buffer Size = 
10000

Sync Online
Transport -> Sync Online -> Not Selected

Sync Setup
Transport -> Sync Setup -> Timecode Source = None
Transport -> Sync Setup -> Machine Control = None
Transport -> Sync setup -> Options (drop out time) = 6
Transport -> Sync setup -> Options (lock time) = 3
Transport -> Sync setup -> Midi machine control settings (midi input) 
= Not Connected
Transport -> Sync setup -> Midi machine control settings (midi 
output) = Not Connected
Transport -> Sync setup -> Midi Timecode Settings (Midi Input) = Not 
Connected
Transport -> Sync setup -> Send Midi Timecode = Nothing selected
Transport -> Sync setup -> Send Midi Clock = HDSP Midi Out (1) 
[Emulated] (nothing more)


If something is missing I can look it from my computer, but I'm not 
going to run any repair-your-computer-service or compair-mine-and-
your-settings here (I hate that).

I hope someone enjoys this and finds it usefull :)

Toni.

Toni,

Thankyou very much for taking the time to detail all of that for us.

Browsing through them they look like the settings I have been using 
but will try them in earnest when I get back to the studio.

Many thanks, it is appreciated!


Martyn

that's great!

never could pull off a MD/cubase sync very well -
definately gonna give your spec's a try.  thanks for
the info!



	
		
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