Midi synchronisation
 

Hi,
I've got a powerbook with a RME Multiface and a small midi-device (2In, 2 Outs) and a Windows based computer which I'd like to synchonise with my powerbook, so that I can press the play button on the apple and it starts playing on the windows computer as well. At moment I use just one Midi-In on the device because I've connected the virus direct to the RME. Is there any solution?

before I bought the powerbook ran the Multiface on the other computer so that I'm definitely going to buy an other interface for the win computer again.

If I can't solve the midi sync problem in an affordable way, probabley I'll buy just an interface with 2 ins and outs to make some mixdown records, but actually I'd like to sync both computers with several outs, to mix them up on my mixer and have a mixdown record on a third pc which I've still got but isn't used a lot.

Hopefully, my explanation isn't too complicated.

Cheers,
Thomas

.....don't hit me if I wanna mix apple with win-based systems. :roll:

Ive done a similar thing syncing a Cubase SX system on a PC with Reason on another PC.

Basically as you suggest hitch up a midi interface between the two, set one at the master of MMC and midi clock and away you go.

How well it works is going to be completely down to the applications you are using and how good your master sync source is. (Assuming you aint using unbeleivably bad midi interfaces).

Personally, I am rather going off using computers as master sync sources - TBH they seem to be crap even compared to cheapo hardware midi clock sources - quite jittery - you dont notice it when playing or listening, but you do notice it when slaving synths with clock syncd fx as the fx can sometimes squeak and jump a little while resyncing around midi clock jitters.

With my V-Synth I get odd squeaks sometimes and with my Virus TI it seems to correspond with stuck notes. All of that seems to go away when using a stable hardware based master clock source.