midi clock is way too sloppy

[camsr]

im using the midi port built into the motherboard, with a cheap casio keyboard. its so sloppy. is there any way to tighten it up?

[BertKoor]

How did you come to that conclusion? What host are you using? Is this during playing / recording with the keyboard or during playback of a recorded track?

Midi messages are relatively slow. Each note-on message takes about 1ms, so that should be the resolution. BUT: some (ehm: most!) hosts send out midi messages on ASIO buffer boundaries. So if you have a medium sized buffer the resolution becomes 5ms of thereabout. And yes, that can be rather sloppy.

There used to be a fellow over here ranting and smashing his head about the issue every odd month. He searched a host that would send the messages at the appropriate timing. Can be done, but most hosts don't do it.

But it's not really related to the midi port as far as I know.

[camsr]

im just using FL and the mpu-401 interface with ASIO (512 sample buffer). MIDI Out to the keyboard sounds way out of sync with the sequencer

[BertKoor]

Can you specify a lag/delay/latency time for the port?
I'd blame PDC