Re: Ableton EDP LP1

[Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Thanks Per :)

I hold out some hope for the EDP, may have the glitch sussed... will see :)

Phil :)

On Nov 28, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Phil Clevenger
> <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone out there have good luck slaving EDP (Loop4)  or LP1 (1.39) to
>> Ableton Live 8's MIDI clock ?
> 
> No. Allow an educated guess that some people on the other hand are
> having good luck slaving to pulse/beat. ;-))  This is because MIDI
> Clock tempo sync is a system where the slaving device needs to go out
> and measure its own speed compared to the master's speed and then
> proceed with adjustments of its own speed - but at that stage the
> master clock might already have drifted away. Bottom line: Slaving
> device is always late, playing constant catch-up.
> 
> When I tried syncing EDP after a beat/pulse it followed well. But most
> of the times I never sync a looper, I sync other gear, including
> software host applications. For my music that works better.
> 
>> EDP seems to do better at  keeping in synch initially, but  there is a
>> glitch every 12 cycles or so that just tosses it completely out of 
>> synch.
>> That glitch could be the fault of any number of things, too broad to
>> diagnose here...
> 
> Sorry no idea what that can be. Never heard of it. Are you sure you
> don't have any MIDI cable inserted when this phenomenon occurs? If so
> it can be cause by some unknown incoming external MIDI data.
> 
>> LP1 seems to lazily drift just enough to make me crazy, only takes a 
>> minute
>> or so of cycling before it is out of synch. The synch probs of 1.39 are
>> fairly well documented, but I could swear I had this working well at 
>> some
>> point in the past...
>> 
>> Not looking for a diagnosis in the dark from a distance,
> 
> Astrology: Mercury is RETROGRADE! ;-)
> 
> Per
>