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i got the EDIROL UM-2EX and it works pretty good, tested it on the weekend with the whole equipment and the timing was absolutely exact!

for everybody who has the same problem with "cheap" controllers using the windows midi drivers.. i tried using an extra midi box via usb now and everything works great! so wasn't lives fault

no neon, an alesis photon here, but same problem if i use fw 410. seems live works ok as a master to send the clock but i need to use as a slave, it syncs but it wanders around by one or two bpm and it happens more if i push the cpu up a bit more, hoping this has been improved for live 6 as it ...

i tried hard making my neon to send out the midi clock, but it doenst work, i dont know why... i can play my external gear via the keyboard and everything but a midiclock isn't send out..

hm ok so if we have that issue with three different controllers this pretty much sounds like a problem of ableton live...

can't somebody of the ableton crew say something to this thread? will this be fixed in version 6, is it even known @ ableton??

i think live is THE best tool for liveperformance ...

@theque so u got a neon too? do you also have problems with e.g. cubase?

thanks for your tips, just tried the buffer thing and it works a little bit better, but still gets confused.. now i tested quiet long with it and can say that only the 8 potis of the esi neon cause a heavy desync.. so could this mean it can be a fault by the hardware too?

i will contact the esi ...

hi!

i just downloaded the demo of live 5 some time ago to test it a little bit because i plan to use it for my live performace.

now everything works fine except for the problem, that live always slightly loses sync when i turn any knob or fader in live (no matter if i do this via my esi neon or ...