Synch problem w/ Cakewalk & Minidisc SMPTE/MTC

[MercyfullMusic]

I am trying to take 4 tracks of live drums from my Sony MDM4 minidisc into Cakewalk 9. I am recording each track one at a time, linking the two with SMPTE and MTC. I am having a terrible time with the tracks sounding completely off from each other timewise. The kick and snare sound completely out of time. And it seems the longer the song plays the worse the problem gets. To make things even more confusing, although the minidisc starts at 00:00:00 and ends at 06:31:02 for all the tracks, in Cakewalk they come into the computer with varying lengths and starting positions. I have tried moving them around, stretching tracks, playing with which clock controls the recording, etc. Nothing is working. My computer is a PII 333 mhz 64 mb RAM, with a Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold Soundcard, and I am using a MIDIMAN DMAN 4 input breakout box and card. The system has virtually no garbage on it at all. Strictly Windows 98 and Cakewalk. Defragged and all.

Does anyone have any idea as to why this is occuring? If the tracks on the minidisc all have the same start and end point shouldn't they come into Cakewalk that way? This is all very new and modern equipment, I don't understand why it is not capable of this.

P.S. Just to see if this was a playback problem only, I created a .wav file and it sounds the same.

This is my first time in this forum, please email me with any help you can give.

sriddle@adv-tec.net

Thanks.

[Nilbog]

No clue...but you might wanna check out the cakewalk forum

[jontflesh]

MercyfullMusic,
I have close to the same set up as you minus the soundcard. I use Cakewalk 9.0 also with a Sony MDM-X4 II.
Now one thing I can say is use the 4-track as the master and the computer as the slave. I have had no problems with the timing after that. Let me know if you are already doing that and we can go from there.


jontflesh
PS whats up Nilbog, I have not been around in a bit. The Lambs should be doing a all ages show soon and I will let you know :-)