707 & Logic Express Midi Question.., Drum machines and Logic Options

[alcianblue]

I've been using a 707 drum machine and I tried to link it up via midi clock to lock the tempo in. The reason being is that I only have a 2 input Firewire system and I want to record and single out the tracks by themselves, like bass drum, snare, etc... When I clocked it, the beat still came off as not in sync. I tried doing this without sync'ing by recording each track seperate but it seems that the drum machine doesn't actually record precise when I try to line the tracks up.

Does anyone know if older drum machines get "off" of being on track? Is it possible I'm doing something wrong with the midi clocking?

Any help would be cool, I'm still learning how to utilize midi with Logic as well as working with this new old drum machine.

[gdoubleyou]

Older machines may not support Midi timecode, from my experience simple midi sync is unreliable.



One solution would be to use the machine as a sound module, and sequence in Logic, then you could have seperate midi tracks for each piece of the drum kit, and be able to record the different parts without reconfigring audio outputs.



This post has been edited by gdoubleyou: Wed 2 Aug 2006, 20:19