Help with MIDI sync - sequencer, Aw2816

[Lawrence]

Hi, hope someone can suggest something that will work for me. I'm new to the digital recording game.

I just got a Yamaha AW2816. I've been using Cakewalk Home Studio 9 to compose drum and other synth tracks (played through my outboard synth modules). I wanted to use the midi clock out on the AW2816 to drive Cakewalk so I could record the drum sounds on the Yamaha. Much to my dismay, I found a single buried line on the Cakewalk website that says Home Studio can't sync to external machines.

I still want to do the drum programming the way I've been doing it. But I need to sync to the Yamaha so that I can tweak the drum tracks as I build the song. I know there are expensive versions of Cakewalk that would allow me to do this- but there is so much junk in them that I wouldn't use- all I really need is the sequencer with some editting capabilities.

Can anyone suggest a device or program which might solve the sync problem in a cost-efffective and preferably simple manner?

I hope the explanation of what I'm trying to do is clear.

Thanks.

[TexRoadkill]

What you want to do puts you in the pro level software. Sorry. If cakewalk won't sync it won't sync.

The old school way is to line the tracks up manually in the DAW. You can record a count in on each track and record the seperate parts then line them up manually. Obviously this will be much more difficult if you have already tracked the music. Either way it can be a laborious and tedius process.