drifting tempo's

[HeadrickProductions]

Have not used live in a while so I loaded her up and played today. I was using three different groovebox ensemble's from reaktor 5 and a vocal track. Things sounded great ran like clock work for something like an hour while I was configuring stuff on the fly via the apc 40. Then all of a sudden things started to go out of synth. Nothing had been adjusted that should have caused this. No length of loops, tempo, tune, pitch , or anything like this within any of the reaktor instances.

....did not seem that it warranted a snap shot.

Also is it ableton or NI who decided what things are configurable within the VST's. I wish we could configure the run button of the massive 1.2 groove box and still want the tempo within kontakt 4 to be configurable.

[turok2step]

have to make sure those gooveboxes are set to external tempo rather than their own. not sure how to make reaktor knobs configurable though, you definitely do it in reaktor

[HeadrickProductions]

I am using reaktor within live 8. It was in time and then It seemed that it slipped out of time. Now the groove boxes could have been ever so lightly out of time and it was not easy to hear until lots of time elapsed.

I just started really getting into reaktor and love the groove boxes. I am going to try something today where I start the groove boxes before I go out and hike for a few hours and see if everything is still in time when I get back. Do you have any other groove box recommendations in the reaktor library, or anything else that I should download. I love reaktor, it's goin take a bit to get a good base of understanding but I'm always down for a challenge.

Thanks for getting back to me.

[ckluxen]

turned on latency compensation?

[3dot...]

latency comp is always on in Live..

[leedsquietman]

MIDI drifting is quite a common occurrence on any DAW after a certain period of time ...

Quite often just saving your project, closing and then re-opening a DAW solves this issue.

[3dot...]

^^^ true for syncing outboard.. but not for plugins..

[3dot...]

if it happens it's cuz you maybe inserted plugins or devices while playing.. causes the PDC to get errors sometimes.. which will cause the drift..
hitting stop and then play will re-sync all...
once you have your set built (not needing to 'add' anything else.. ) then it shouldn't happen..
if it still does.. then it's a bug

[leedsquietman]

actually yes, I got confused and was thinking of outboard ... thanks !

[HeadrickProductions]

if it happens it's cuz you maybe inserted plugins or devices while playing.. causes the PDC to get errors sometimes.. which will cause the drift..
hitting stop and then play will re-sync all...
once you have your set built (not needing to 'add' anything else.. ) then it shouldn't happen..
if it still does.. then it's a bug

I'm had already had all the groove boxes and transformers already placed within live. I do understand that by placing them in on the fly that they would start at different points. Everything was in time, then I got distracted and came back an hour later and things were out of time.

Easy solution would be to dump audio into one track, have a looper on the track and just record. Then I could same cpu and just delete the vst's.

thanks for the help, I think there is just an issue over a long period of time where midi clips go out of time. Since most people would not do this it is not looked after well. Once again I have not had a chance to look into it more cause I've been busy. I'll get back to you later

Thanks for the advice

[3dot...]

... not talking about inserting the grooveboxes themselves.. but actually dropping in any vst/device...which has a latency of it's own.. (compressors come to mind..)