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By joeybells Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:30 pm
I'm havin a nightmare syncing my MPC1000 to my DAW (Logic). I'm having to offset my midiclock by about -50 ms. Is this normal?

By ijustwannaproduce Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:35 am
yeah could be ur latency sounds to me like ur using to long of a chord and because of that u gettin latency
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By joeybells Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:13 am
S***, think you might've hit the nail on the head dawg. It's a 3m cable. Gonna change it to a 1m and see how it goes. Gonna try connecting via different interface too (my Edirol controller keyboard instead of my Project Mix I/O).

Thanks, I'll let you know if it works.

By fader-pro Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:10 pm
If it works with a 50ms offset, why sweat it? That's what the offset feature is for....
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By joeybells Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:52 pm
guyz,
It's getting better.

Hooked up a 1m cable - improved.
Sent midi clock out thru my USB instead of FW - improved again
Lowered my I/O buffer size - even better
Monitoring zero latency through headphone socket - even better
Now I'm having to DELAY the midi!!

Any suggestions about how to make it so I don't have to delay the midi??
Something to do with plug-in delay compensation maybe??
Then this'll be perfect. It's gotta be possible to get this to be bang on,
without any fiddling each time i record.
This is 2005 for f**** sake!

Are you guys all dealing with silly offsets???
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By jaem Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:18 pm
joeybells wrote:This is 2005 for f**** sake!

:idea:


in the words of carlos mencia....

dun dun da da



YEAHHAAHEY....I GOT MAIL

By fader-pro Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:36 pm
joeybells wrote:guyz,
It's getting better.

Hooked up a 1m cable - improved.
Sent midi clock out thru my USB instead of FW - improved again
Lowered my I/O buffer size - even better
Monitoring zero latency through headphone socket - even better
Now I'm having to DELAY the midi!!

Any suggestions about how to make it so I don't have to delay the midi??
Something to do with plug-in delay compensation maybe??
Then this'll be perfect. It's gotta be possible to get this to be bang on,
without any fiddling each time i record.
This is 2005 for f**** sake!

Are you guys all dealing with silly offsets???


Yeah but my offset is small....certianly less than a year..... :wink: Fix you calendar and you may sync up..... :lol:
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By joeybells Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:49 pm
oh s***, smokin too many trees as usual!!
bludclart 8)

refraze : "it is 2006 for f**** sake!"

seriously though, are u guys having to offset your midi/midiclox that much??

By ijustwannaproduce Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:31 pm
yeah man llike i said long chords are ur worst nightmare they go hand and hand with latency and when audio they act as capasitors and u will lose high frequencys im from the states so im a little slow when it comes to the meeter system so uh audio wise nothin pass 20 feet and midi wise i think nothin pass 12 feet
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By joeybells Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:12 pm
ijustwannaproduce wrote:yeah man llike i said long chords are ur worst nightmare they go hand and hand with latency and when audio they act as capasitors and u will lose high frequencys im from the states so im a little slow when it comes to the meeter system so uh audio wise nothin pass 20 feet and midi wise i think nothin pass 12 feet


here's a quote from a supposed expert at Sound on Sound??

here should be no measurable difference in time between a 1m lead and a 3m lead...although the data rate is quite slow, the data itself is travelling at a significant portion of the speed of light.... the difference between 1 and 3 metres at that speed is irrelevant .maybe the 3m lead was simply faulty??
:?: [/quote]