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Re: Mobius latency compensation



Works pretty well for me too regardless of who is clock master.   Though I 
did see some problems in the presence of a midi clock loop once...

After I figured out how the clock was looping back in, i shut the door and 
the issue was resolved

daniel 
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Sylvain Poitras wrote:

> Luis,
> 
> What sort of problems are you having when trying sync mobius and
> ableton?  I have no issues with mobius as the master, other than
> sometimes a loop that I hear as a single bar ends up as two bars in
> ableton (or vice versa, can't remember which right now).  BPM sync is
> solid and seems to re-sync at the start of the loop.
> 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Louie Angulo
> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Jeff i have a question,
>> in playing around with both Abletons looper and Mobius as a plugin
>> there is a BPM difference when i try to use Mobius as a master with
>> Ableton which is unfortunately unusable if trying to sync grooves to
>> it.
>> Mobius seems to be much better as a slave though,but Abletons looper
>> is very acurate as a master.Is this something that will work in future
>> versions just as well when being used as a plugin perhaps?
>> cheers
>> Luis
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Jeff Larson 
><jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've been trying to set up the above so overdubs go where they should
>>>> and stay there on subsequent passes.  A couple of attempts have ended
>>>> in frustration, i figured not helped by the fact that I'm using the
>>>> built-in soundcard on an old desktop machine.
>>> If you haven't already done so, read this section of the installation 
>guide:
>>>    http://www.circularlabs.com/doc/installation.htm#Tuning Latency
>>> 
>>> Assuming you are using Windows, if you are using the built-in sound 
>card
>>> you will be using an "MME" driver which has very high latency.  It is
>>> possible
>>> for Mobius to compensate for this so that your overdubs will line up 
>but
>>> you have to enter the right values into the latency fields in the
>>> Audio Devices window.  Sometimes the driver is able to tell us what
>>> the latency is, other times it can't and we have to enter it manually.
>>> This is explained in the manual.
>>> If you use a pro audio interface it will come with ASIO drivers that
>>> have very low latency.  Often people don't even bother tuning latency
>>> compensation since it is so slight that it is hard to hear even if it
>>> is off by a few milliseconds.
>>> As an alternative to buying a pro interface you could also try
>>> ASIO4ALL which will give the built-in sound card an ASIO driver.  I 
>have
>>> had success with this, but if you're serious about sound quality you
>>> should still consider an external interface.
>>>> Reading the previous thread on mobius latency, according to Per it's
>>>> not possible to achieve perfect sync i.e. it will always drift a bit.
>>> I'm not sure what this was referring to, but you can certainly tune
>>> latency compesnation for exact alignment of overdubs and once set it
>>> won't drift unless you are also changing your physical location
>>> relative to your monitor speakers.
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> www.luis-angulo.com
>> 
>> 
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