still got my atari, its not that prehistoric if all you're using it for is midi sequnecing your hardware, like the gearslutz guys say, its rock solid, and those early versions of cubase are better featured for midi than ableton imo, because alll they were doing was midi sequencing.Robot Criminal wrote:well atari had midi ports and is famous for it's tight azz midi. I've researched gearslutz and whatnot on this subject and people still swear by their ataris I've even concidered getting one from bay but gave up the idea eventually, I'm not that much into working with prehistoric computers. At the moment I went all hw, sequencing everything from the MPC and using the 'puter just as a recording device. And it's awesome!!steevio wrote:personally i think its the new software like ableton etc.Barfunkel wrote:
I'd always put the hardware as master though, I don't trust computers and midi.
i started using the original cubase on an Atari 520 back in 1992, running hardware from the software sequencer, then migrated onto cubase VST on a PC at some point, then various vesrions of cubase, and in all that time i've never once had a midi timing issue of any sort.
however ive hardly ever used audio in a DAW, so i'm not likely to have encountered any latency / delay issues, but as far as midi timing going out, nothing in 20 years.
good to hear you've gone all hardware !