MPD 26 and my drums

When I hit the pads on mpd using logic 9 there not in sync with when I hit the pads. When I listen to what I recorded my drum patterns does not sound like they way I was hitting my pads.

Welcome to the world of software sequencing...

Its latency and/or jitter. You can adjust your soundcard buffer to reduce latency. You can try different MIDI interfaces or soundcards that have less jitter, and so on. But Logic will never be as tight as an MPC...

Latency is a constant delay between when something happens (e.g. hitting the pad) and hearing the result. Jitter is when that delay is not a constant delay, but a variable one. In other words one note might be delayed by 8ms (milliseconds), and the next one might be delayed by 20ms (and I'm not exaggerating). Every digital audio device has latency and/or jitter, including MPCs, but MPCs have a lot less latency/jitter than computers (and even most other samplers/sequencers).

okay thank you for the help

wolf15 wrote:When I hit the pads on mpd using logic 9 there not in sync with when I hit the pads. When I listen to what I recorded my drum patterns does not sound like they way I was hitting my pads.

MP3 is def right about adjusting the soundcard's buffer settings.... and also check your quantise settings in Logic as this would cause Logic to "correct" what it sees as your mistakes.

wolf, you're welcome, and I'm sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you lol.

Second thing is that, the most of the built-in sound devices are not low latency so you will probably never get undelayed and accurate sound as long as you are using these crappy or internal soundcards...
They are simply not designed for studio work and they are too slow......

just remember...the lower the latency the better, so go with ZERO latency. look for interfaces that have this feature.....it may not be exactly zero, but it will be very unnoticeable

DPM wrote:just remember...the lower the latency the better, so go with ZERO latency. look for interfaces that have this feature.....it may not be exactly zero, but it will be very unnoticeable

Zero latency (monitoring) is helpful, but it has nothing to do with playing a software synth or sampler. Its designed so that a vocalist or guitarist doesn't hear a delay when singing/playing into the DAW. There is no way to monitor software instruments with zero latency.