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Subject:Please Help with Midi Sync Posted by: evolVlove Date:11/1/2002 5:41:58 PM I'm using 4.0 Still no luck getting ACID to sync with a Yamaha DJX or the Roland 1680 via a midisport 2x2usb. Suggestions?? thanks I'm using MidiOx software to sync the 1680 with Reason. I downloaded the Virtual Midi Router, but haven't installed it yet. avoiding possible conflicts and still looking for first hand user info before proceeding. Also wondering how to optimize song file size after editing and deleting tracks . thanks again
Subject:RE: Please Help with Midi Sync Reply by: buffalosnout Date:11/2/2002 10:53:01 AM Evolvlove: Here is an old forum post of mine that I pasted into this message. Hopefully, it will give you some ideas. "After a lot of trial and error and frustration, I have finally got ACID and Cakewalk products to sync up. Perhaps this procedure will work with other MIDI sequencers, too. To sync Cakewalk products with ACID Pro: In Cakewalk: Load a song in Cakewalk. Set the Tools Project Option (Clock) in Cakewalk to SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. You will have to set this Project setting for each different song that you want to sync with ACID. Be sure the Sonic Foundry VMR is selected as an “input device,” in the Tools “MIDI Devices” menu of Cakewalk. In Acid: Install the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router in your operating system (Windows 2000, for example). Select Generate MIDI Timecode, not MIDI Clock, as your . Use the VMR (Virtual MIDI Router)as the Timecode generator, as set in the “Sync” preferences area. Also select SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. Make sure that none of the MIDI ports used by Cakewalk are activated (selected) inside the MIDI Preferences of ACID. If they are, you will get an error message that a selected device is being used by another program. Go to Cakewalk hit rewind and play. You’ll get a message about waiting for a sync signal. Go to ACID. Rewind and hit play. Enjoy. You now have LOTS more musical power than before." James

Evolvlove: Here is an old forum post of mine that I pasted into this message. Hopefully, it will give you some ideas.

"After a lot of trial and error and frustration, I have finally got ACID and Cakewalk products to sync up. Perhaps this procedure will work with other MIDI sequencers, too.

To sync Cakewalk products with ACID Pro:

In Cakewalk: Load a song in Cakewalk. Set the Tools Project Option (Clock) in Cakewalk to SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. You will have to set this Project setting for each different song that you want to sync with ACID. Be sure the Sonic Foundry VMR is selected as an “input device,” in the Tools “MIDI Devices” menu of Cakewalk.

In Acid: Install the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router in your operating system (Windows 2000, for example). Select Generate MIDI Timecode, not MIDI Clock, as your . Use the VMR (Virtual MIDI Router)as the Timecode generator, as set in the “Sync” preferences area. Also select SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. Make sure that none of the MIDI ports used by Cakewalk are activated (selected) inside the MIDI Preferences of ACID. If they are, you will get an error message that a selected device is being used by another program.

Go to Cakewalk hit rewind and play. You’ll get a message about waiting for a sync signal.

Go to ACID. Rewind and hit play. Enjoy. You now have LOTS more musical power than before."

James