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righty ive got 2 macs....an odd g4 power book running Live 5 and a mac book pro running Live 6 (soon to be 7...).... all i want to do is bpm sync them so i can run some of my older, no longer supported, vst's on the powerbook and my more cpu intesive stuff on the mac book pro....

anyone got a clue where to start?

connect both via midi..go to preferences..set one to sync on the dedicated midiport..this one will be the one that is synced or will be synced don`t know now..means one is master one is slave...then activate the popping up ext button in transport bar..this one will be the master and is sending the sync to the slave..adjust sync delay to avoid issues..

hope that helps..

good luck

ok now you put it like that i should have been able to work it out for myself! thank you...

Assuming your running Tiger on your G4, Leopard on the Macbook...you could Ethernet them together (System pref -> Network), even wirelessly if you want (Latency can sometimes be an issue though).

Using the inbuilt OS midi functions (Audio/Midi Setup ->Midi Devices ->Network)... setup both Macs on the the same Midi Network.. Then In Live...set your Macintel to send midiclock, your G4 to sync to midiclock recieved and.... Voila. Your G4 is now a Slave. Muwahahahah. You'll be able to send midiclock, so tempo, start, stop, etc is all in sync, and even midi data from clips etc using the I/O routing in Live.

It sounds more complicated than it really is... will take like 10 minutes tops after you've done it once (its harder to find the little menus and figure out some of the terms than anything else).

Good Luck...

Sry cannot be more clear/ exact... at work...lol!