Just to mention that you can continue to use your Timepiece if you program your patches on an older XP machine using the parallel port (maybe an old laptop which only gets connected when you need to modify an existing patch) – you can switch patches from the front panel of the Timepiece. You could e.g. take ADAT sync, send it out from the Timepiece as MTC and into the Midex and get Cubase to slave to it, have another patch where you just use it as a merger for convenience, etc.