Octatrack sequencing VST - DAW not synced

[amiga303]

@""LarsErik""

1. Using a DAW doesn’t necessarily mean that you will get problems with midi jitter and delay. You need to measure and evaluate how big “problem” you have with your setup.

2. Using hardware does not magically “fix” the shortcomings of midi jitter/delay. There’s plenty of hardware synths, drum machines that are terrible at midi.

I suspect people who come from a pure DAW/plugin world get a bit freaked out when they buy “real” gear and start using midi clock and sending notes back and forth since they are used to always having sample accurate timing in their DAW.

slightly off topic, just love to discuss this, forgive me.
about freaked out: well, DAWs do not have sample accurate clock generation. what u hear when using DAWs is not tight. u have clock jitter all the time, u just dont notice it because u have sample accurate timing “inside”, eg. a delay plugin locked to bpm, drummachine seq, rewire sync, etc. if u dont believe me load some cpu hungry plugins and do a litmus test while loading. its fascinating this hasnt got better since 30 years, rather worse because software and OS is more complicated - so I suppose. mind dazzling there seems to be a tradeoff between functionality and clock tightness problem u cant just iron out with faster cpus or more memory.
just compare how much tighter a MPC3000 or a ASQ-10 is compared to a MPC1000.
AR is a complex computer too. it would be silly to expect the tightness of a simple analog sequencer from a machine that does so much.
that said of course there is simple gear that has terrible timing.
maybe its possible to have a computer hardware design that ensures correct timing to the outside world while keeping sample accurate timing inside. von neumann architecture does not seem to scale in this regard.
at same time it comes down to the programmer. Roger Linn probably could write a VST DAW that generates tight midi out clock.