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Just got my EDP yesterday and spent all day today
in the living room reading the manual and playing with it. It
rocks! Much more powerful than my Boss RC-20 (probably about $450
more powerful). But I really bought it for it's MIDI syncing
capabilities...
Now I'm back in the studio with it, trying to get
it hooked up to my computer. I easily got it to listen to MIDI clock from
Sonar so my loops were in time with my sequence, but I have not been able to get
Sonar to listen to the clock the EDP generates.
I will try and be as thorough as possible, so you
can help me (if you can) without a bunch of list traffic...
EDP Setup: OS LoopIII 5.0 (until LoopIV gets here
next week), Sync=Out, 8ths/Beat=12 (the sequence I'm trying to start is in 6/4,
145BPM), Channel=2 (does this matter?)
The MIDI cables are in place (EDP Out --> PC
In, PC OUT --> EDP In), and Sonar is receiving *some* kind of signal
from the EDP (the MIDI In light on the little icon in the systray is on when the
EDP should be sending clock).
I have the Project -> Clock dialog options in
Sonar set to Source = MIDI Sync, Ticks per quarter-note = 120
(default), SMPTET/MTC Format = 30 Frame Non-drop (default).
Symptoms:
- The manual says you're just supposed to start the
sequencer and it will wait for MIDI clock and then start itself. It says
"Waiting for MIDI Sync..." in the status bar at the bottom of the screen when I
press play in Sonar, but as soon as I step on Record on the EDP footswitch to
start recording a loop for it to sync to, that message vanishes. I
tried setting MIDI --> Control Source on the EDP to all possible values
(controller, note, and off) and nothing changed.
- If I have a loop running on the EDP already,
sending MIDI clock, and I press play in Sonar it says "Waiting for MIDI Sync..."
and sits there while the clock indicator on the EDP blinks away.
Am I missing something??? What kinds of software/hardware sequencers is everyone else
using (if you are using sequencers with your EDP)?
Hopefully,
Jesse
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