Erm multiclock at juno9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() IIRC the polling rate of USB is 1kHz, which places a limiting window in time (via Nyquist) of 500Hz that any particular event can be located precisely in even a theoretical best-case scenario, so there's a baked in amount of jitter that you'll see in such a scheme (in real usage there are a number of other stages that also contribute timing errors). USB has never really been a suitable transport for realtime data that needs to be synchronous (time-accurate and consistently so) to levels beyond what the human sensory system can detect. For some reason the nerdseq sending midi clock out while receiving clock from Ableton results in the mc-909 making really fast stuttery notes, so I am not sure what I did wrong there. I then extended the experiment to try to drive the Mc-909 from the nerdseq. By playing in a “clock” rhythm by hand and recording it, you could have a track that on one hand sounds loose, but is actually exactly on time, in terms of all the pieces fitting together. ![]() Then i extended the sequence in Ableton and inserted a bar where the clock hits are on a triplet grid, suns the result is an instant triplet fill section in the nerdseq. This created a noticeable organic feel to the nerdseq, which otherwise is locked into a grid. I extracted the groove from a song I like and am trying to copy the feel of, in Ableton, and applied thst groove to the click sequences. I played an audio sample that makenoise recommended as adequate for a clock signal from the drum tracks, into the nerdseq clock in. I created two drum track in Ableton, one for clock and one for reset. A trick I did today that I am pretty happy about. I have the expert sleepers ES-3 a nerdseq, an Mc-909 and some various other gear. Really just interested in any new news that folks may have hard about as we mercifully end 2020 and have new gear coming soon. Not sure if MIDI 2.0 will fix this either, whenever it releases as a standard. Regardless, I feel like so many people are buying hardware and recording into DAWs now that we should see more options coming for this issue. I have no idea if that would help with it or not. But not everyone can use it on their system and not everyone likes elektron machines.Ībleton 11 has a new feature that follows the audio coming in. Elektron took a lot of grief for Overbridge, but damn if it doesn’t do a fine job for me. I know its not an easy fix but I feel like we should be getting close to better DAW/Hardware integration. Understanding that this can be fairly complex with PCs and optimization, plus latency.etc. Yes, you can spend a lot of money on an ERM multiclock, and its a great box but I feel like we should have better and cheaper options, maybe some that are offered by the DAW as optional hardware, for example. One of the most infamous pains of hybrid workflow is MIDI jitter from the PC to the hardware. ![]()
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