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Originally Posted by DivineChemical  The fact is, if you've had an Atari, you're never going to get your MIDI that tight again. The absolute tightest I have ever gotten out of any DAW was a 4ms drift. ...yet another reason why I'm trying to go back to hardware sequencing. |
I've suffered a lot from MIDI jitter and latency over the years as well, and I stuck with hardware sequencing until very recently because I got around 1ms jitter and very low latency from my MPC4000 (and other good hardware sequencers as well).
However, I have a setup that now measures the same 1ms jitter and very good latency, namely Logic 8 with an RME Fireface as the MIDI interface. The RME docs claim a MIDI jitter of better than 1ms, and I did a bunch of careful measurements to verify it, and I do indeed see this kind of low jitter. So I'm finally happy sequencing my hardware synths from a DAW. I have several Firefaces daisy-chained to give me enough MIDI outs (there are 2 MIDI ins and outs on a FF400 and one in and out on a FF800).
I still love the MPC for its immediacy and tactile feel, and I think the sampler in (Z4) is great, but the fact is that for just plain MIDI sequencing, I'm able to work much faster in Logic now. The editing in Logic is just worlds better than anything on a hardware unit, and now that the timing is excellent it's just not compelling (in my case anyhow) to stick with the hardware unit.
-synthoid