Syncing Live on a PC Laptop via midi to Powerbook sequencer

vantage · Post by **vantage** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:57 pm

Hi Folks

Thinking of taking the plunge into Abletonville, I have my beloved Ti Book 667 1 gb ram which I'm going to sequence on - probably using Cubase SE as I have also acquired a cursed PC (Sony VGN-295XP 1.86 Pentium M 1gb Ram 100gb HD) for work, however I am going to put a second stripped install of Win XP on it and run hopefully Live 5 and a VST shell to use some of the PC horsepower. Both machines will have RME Cardbus and Multifaces in them...

BUT

Can live be synced externally - i.e. to midi, I know it works with Rewire but has anyone synced it as a midi device externally to a sequencer?

Cheers for any thoughts

Aj

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:24 pm

yes. It works quite well for many of us, but some have had problems, mostly when syncing for extended periods of time without stopping playback.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:34 pm

the midi clock sync can be a bit dodgy, but generally works. not sure if MTC will give you a better sync, as i've never tried it out.