Synching Drum Machine, Question about synching midi tracks. Options

[hazimel]

When I record midi tracks from my SR-16 drum machine to cakewalk, the drums gradually get out of synch with the bars in cakewalk. How do I get the two in synch so each bar of music is recorded accurately? Trying to adjust tempos never works.

[damann]

sorry but none of this should be necassary, use mtc, it's phase accurate.
one machine, usually the sequencer, but not always, is the master.
hit play on it, the slave device reads midi song position pointers to stay in sync.
i've done it loads of times with loads of devices and it's always worked.
i can provide more info here if necassary.
if you're experiencing a midi lag situation it will be global, no variation, one offset for the whole track will sort it out.
in my experience, follow geedoubleyou's advice, make sure though that cubase is transmitting midi time code and that song position pointers are enabled.