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so, the difference between laptop<->hardware midi clock and laptop<->laptop may be that there is more inherent jitter in a laptop only situation where midi timing isn't guaranteed to be clockwise accurate.

my problem stems from wanting to use re-pitch mode..

what are your clips of that they only ...

"The clock within Live does not work well either between applications on the same host or between two hosts over MIDI."

Yeah, apparently not. My symptoms using Midi Time Code are very warbly playback when using re-pitch, the only good sounding clip playback mode. Unfortunately Beat mode sounds bad ...

i've been trying to get two laptops to sync perfectly using the MTC sync feature in live.

the problem is that all the interfaces i've tried seem to have pretty sloppy MTC and whoever is set to receive sync is constantly displaying a shifting tempo, making re-pitch'd sample playback completely ...

hey, just cause apple is stuffing money down the front of your pants to dance in front of the camera, doesn't mean you're a goober... oh... wait. guess it does.

the above was from me... not sure why that didn't post under my name... hmmm...