Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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Martinukai
 
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Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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I have tried sending clock to my xox from various machines: Octatrack, analog rytm, analog four. Each time the xox is noticeably behind time, I notice it particularly when I slow the tempo right down. The audio from the xox is routed directly into the octatrack so an audio delay is not the issue.

Anyone else noticed this issue in their xox? Cheers!

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Re: Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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Which firmware are you running?

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Re: Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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It's the Sokkos from this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=43270

2.0, it appears.

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Re: Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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When I finished building the x0x it has a huge latency, was unusable with midi, and after upgrade to Sokkos 2.0 its way better. The latency now is about 15ms to respond the start message and decreases to 5ms from there. I sync it to Ableton Live.

I dont know your experience about that, but I never got my Machinedrum to sync with nothing :c

Did you tried to sync with non Elektron gear?

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Re: Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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I had the same issue when syncing from Ableton. Hmmmm. Thanks for chiming in!

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Re: Xox midi clock seems to drag behind other machines.

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The machinedrum should serve very well as a MIDI clock master. Just make sure not to output the midi drum notes over that same MIDI port. Since MIDI uses a serial UART things get messy when they are constantly buffering data.

MIDI isn't the best choice for rock solid syncing. Use DIN-sync when possible. I guess synthesising 24 pulses every quarter note isnt that hard on an elektron device...think about it.

Serious hardware oriented producers end up buying dedicated syncing devices for a good reason.
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