Re: Syncing 2 PC's

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Hmmm.  My guess is has something to do with MIDI via a LAN.  Network 
packet traffic was never supposed to provide realtime anything, though 
I must admit ignorance to this protocol.  Did you try using a standard 
USB to MIDI interface?  I used to get an iBook to talk to a Mac G3 
desktop with no issues.

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 05:47 AM, Lars Oeschey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list, I don't know if I'm right here ;)
>
> What I want to do is a live performance with 2 PC's and perhaps a few
> keyboards. I did a few tests already, and found my biggest problem is
> the sync of the PC's.
> One Laptop is a Pentium M 1800, so a quite modern machine, while the
> other is a Pentium 400. That means that I can't run *every* software on
> the P400 (e.g. Cakewalk Sonar).
> I linked the machines with a network cable (100MBit) and run 
> MidiOverLan
> on it, which currently just transports Sync Data.
> For example I tried to run Ableton Liv on the fast machine, and rebirth
> on the slower one. Ableton has a setting to add or remove to the
> latency, but it just goes from -50 to +50ms, which isn't enough to get
> both machines in sync.
> I also tried Ableton+Acid, where the slower PC gave the timecode, but
> then the sync would drift.
> On the slow PC I can't use Ableton, since I have two different Audio
> outs, and Ableton would only let me select one of them, so I have no
> dedicated PreListen output.
>
> I just need some ideas, what a successful setup could be...
>
> Lars
>