Newb question re: loop sync to incoming midi clock

[Phantom-K]

Not even a newb bc I’m simply Stage 3 curious. A buddy loaned me his for a couple of weeks. Master clock in working well with arps. Downloaded sample editor software and got it to work with both incoming audio I sampled across keyboard and looped material *up to point of transferring to keyboard itself* (didn’t want to save to loaner and screw something up).

Now question: is there way to sync drum loop tempo to incoming master clock? I’m thinking answer is no and loop will only play at native tempo. Assuming this can’t be done, does anyone have work around for this in live band setting?

Thanks in advance for you patience and time. I have spent time with the manual and searching the forum before posting and my apologies if this is a question asked and answered a thousand times over.

[Kaffimusic]

You answered yourself. No syncing of internal audioloops to external midisync.
The usual way to get this done is by sequencing the stuff, but since there is nothing like that in the NS, no chance.
However, one trick could work - Have a drumloop running and let your arp run in the same speed with zero sound. You have to time that manually. This usually works just for some time (most likely for something around 15-30sec max.) until both tracks fall apart. However, with the NS as the sync master it would work for that long.
But the NS has problems handling other tasks like playing on it the same time. It is not really able to do something like that simultaneoulsy.

But, no, not really practical.

Let me tell you something. Things like that are better done with good monitoring for the drummer. He has to adapt to the speed of the audio. Usually this works better than any technical gadgets. But you need a drummer that can do that. Many can´t, it´s the better ones that do.
When I have that situation, I have the loop on one key and let it run. And when I realize the drummer loses it (or simply does not care) I start it new IN TIME which is a nice training of dexterity. Good luck

Going the technical way would be using a workstation (I guess any can do that) or an extra device that handles midisyncing and playing sequences the same time. Loops can be triggered always at the new "1" of the bar, so slight differences in the loop and the midisync do not matter as long as it is close in speed.
Another way is chopping the beat into slices and sequence them. This allows more time variations. By the way this was introduced with the first Motif Series from Yamaha.