[RWP] slaving external sequencer to Reaper's clock

[Patrick Perdue]

The audio interface makes no difference. I tried two midi interfaces, same thing. So I then slaved the TS to another hardware sequencer's clock/MTC, which was fine. What I don't know is if I slave, say, my Motif to it in the same way, if I will have the same problem. I'll do that when I can sit up for more than a few minutes at a time, and see what happens.
In this case, literally all I am doing is clock syncing and having Reaper stop/start the external sequencer. Nothing heavy at all. I suspect it's down to hardware though, because I have had some latency when slaving my Korg Mikrokorg to the master clock of the TS so that it's delay and arpegio is in time with a running sequence.
If the Mikrokorg is set to auto, it's usually a bit off, but if it's set to external, most of the time it's fine.
The TS doesn't have auto, just internal or midi.

On Apr 3, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Just for funnies, did you try any other piece of gear just to isolate if there might be a buffering issue with the ts?
> 
> How about another audio interface, do you get the same results?
> 
> Or another midi interface if you have one available?
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> I had a buffering issue with an old roland unit which used to choke on thick midi data even internally with it's own drive, but this sounds like that's not the problem.
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> Also, you could try another daw to see if the same thing happens with it, then this would maybe isolate the hardware as the culprit, or at least tell you reaper isn't the fly in the ointment.
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> That's all my poor brain can think of comming off a serious 2 day migraine 'grin'.
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> On 4/2/2014 5:07 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>> Hi all:
>> 
>> Today, I attempted, and succeeded, to sync my Ensoniq TS-12's built-in sequencer to Reaper's midi clock, with MTC. Reaper is the master clock, and my Ensoniq TS-12 is the slave. However, there is some latency between when Reaper sends out MTC and the sequencer starts playing. Probably about 50MS or so. So, the audio is always way ahead of the sequencer. I found some boxes that look like they are supposed to do midi offset latency stuff, played with numbers, and never got anywhere. Unchecked boxes for reset pitch and a couple of other things, which also didn't do much. I can manually comp for latency after recording, but I'd rather not do that if I didn't have to. This is old midi gear from 1993, so there are no latency options as there are for some newer stuff. Anyone have ideas?
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