By Secondhand Therapy
Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:24 am
Hey Everyone!
So this is my conundrum - I am trying to use Ableton as a master clock only for recording purposes in my setup. When I jam out the MPC Live is the master clock of everything, connected to a Digitone -> Digitakt -> Eurorack setup (through each devices individual thru ports) - but when it is time to record - I find that it makes a lot more sense to switch Ableton to be the master (lots of reasons for that but mostly because of it's wonky external sync - you can't seem to use the session record view if synced to an external clock source).
The problem is that whenever I do this - all of the devices start getting their BPM double / triple temp'd. When I make the Digitone the first piece in the setup this problem no longer exists so I have narrowed it down to the MPC live. I have a feeling this is because the MPC is set to both send clock data as well as receive it, its clock is going all over the place? I would have hoped by setting Sync on Midi output A and input sync on it would just know to pass the clock through, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
So my question is - is this possible at all? i.e. receive an external clock source into the MPC, and then pass it on to the rest of my devices?
So this is my conundrum - I am trying to use Ableton as a master clock only for recording purposes in my setup. When I jam out the MPC Live is the master clock of everything, connected to a Digitone -> Digitakt -> Eurorack setup (through each devices individual thru ports) - but when it is time to record - I find that it makes a lot more sense to switch Ableton to be the master (lots of reasons for that but mostly because of it's wonky external sync - you can't seem to use the session record view if synced to an external clock source).
The problem is that whenever I do this - all of the devices start getting their BPM double / triple temp'd. When I make the Digitone the first piece in the setup this problem no longer exists so I have narrowed it down to the MPC live. I have a feeling this is because the MPC is set to both send clock data as well as receive it, its clock is going all over the place? I would have hoped by setting Sync on Midi output A and input sync on it would just know to pass the clock through, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
So my question is - is this possible at all? i.e. receive an external clock source into the MPC, and then pass it on to the rest of my devices?

