There are many different DAWs and many of them can handle MIDI very well. Using an external sound source (such as your Motif XF) with a DAW is a commo...
Ok, I'll offer a quick response starting at the very basic level. Not instructions; just a general overview. If you have MIDI track(s) already in y...
To clarify your question: do you want to create the MIDI arrangement on your computer and use the Motif XF merely as a sound source? Or do you want to...
Temporary workarounds to get a well-timed metronome "on tape" when the Motif XF is slaved to the Roland VS2000CD by MIDI clock: All of these have b...
Thank you Bad Mister. I ran a test, as you suggested, with the sequenced drums and the Motif XF metronome both playing simultaneously, slaved to M...
Ok, I'll leave this thread here. Thanks Bad Mister.
Sounds like fun with the RS7000, Bad Mister. I imagine you could get some interesting choppy quick-trigger effects if you were so inclined. I probably...
I understand that getting the two devices playing correctly together in PATTERN mode relies on me rewinding the Motif to the top every time before I i...
Bad Mister, thank you for sticking with me through all this. There is a new chapter to this story, but first to close the last chapter so you know whe...
In SONG mode, yes, but with exceptions. If I start the AKAI playing from the relative zero point, or any point later than that, the Motif plays wit...
Yes, that's what I have. The start point in relative time happens several seconds after the absolute zero. This is shown in the second picture of my r...
I understand absolute time to be referenced to the earliest possible point on a tape or a hard disk equivalent, or a master device more generally. ...
Thanks for your patience. I will now describe the results I observed after using a time offset on the master device. In the AKAI song settings, I s...
The following images capture the full instructions from the AKAI DPS manual relating to slaving a sequencer using MIDI clock, as well as the MIDI impl...