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by henry ford » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:30 pm
hmm, well...
set up two midi tracks....one to record with auditioning off and one to audition. Arm them both , put your instrument of choice into the audition track. Set the midi out of the recording track to send to the audition track , so that when you launch a recorded clip it will play.
it kind of makes sense to me , why the midi track delays in the same way as an audio track with auditioning set to on or auto.
if auditioning is off , live does not have to match the written notes with sounds at the same time , thus it does the job perfectly. If , by means of turning auditioning on , live is expected to play sound in sync to the notes being played , it will probably delay the midi notes so that they are in sync with the sound , as opposed to being in sync with your fingers. This i guess causes less confusion then having the sound delayed and the notes in sync with your fingers. I guess it all comes down to the inevitable latency caused when wishing to send midi signals from an external module through a sequencer and into a sound module , and in turn sending audio to your ears. Somethings got to give , and it seems logical there has to be an offset somewhere. Unless of course , you are hearing the sound before the midi notes get written ? Also , as regards watching a clip record as you play , I have often noticed the visual representation of the notes/sound being recorded lag behind whats being played , but as far as I recall it would be recorded properly when you go to play it.. I cant test it out now as im away from my studio......I hope you figure it out one way or the other.
I have not been satisfied with PDC....it dont seem to work for me.
I have a midi track sending to a micro modular (external synth) , and i have the audio outs from the modular being sent to an audio track - auditioning set to off. Now , i want to record the audio that the modular will produce when that midi clip gets sent to it. However , i have tried offsetting both midi and audio track but it seems to be completely ineffectual. When I launch the midiclip/and/recording clip ...i always get the same length of space at the start of the audio clip. So with offset set to zero , auditioning off...is the same as offsetting both tracks. The only time i can get any change is making the space BIGGER! , surely if offsetting one way makes the space larger , offsetting the opposite way should (as advertised) make it smaller (even not at all). I am going to search the threads on this one.....its kind of dissapointing , I hope im missing something obvious. As far as I'm concerned under those circumstances live should get things bang-on. Getting things in sync while auditioning too , would be frikkin fantastic