Digitakt receiving inconsistent MIDI Clock from DAW

[mzero]

tl;dr: That jitter is normal, and just looks bad. You shouldn’t hear anything but tight.

Sample rates and bpm

tl;dr: If you don’t look at that jumpy number and just listen, it is probably sync’d tight. The BPM display on the Digitakt isn’t very smoothed. All MIDI sync followers are internally taking a jittery signal and smoothing it out. There is a trade-off in smoothness with how fast it can respond to actual tempo changes. Practically speaking, by ear alone you’d want the follower to be quicker and more responsive. But the visual display looks jumpy if you show that directly. So implementations ofte…