Plays for a few beats then jumps back to start point again

Sly One · Post by **Sly One** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:03 pm

I've been seeing this problem for ages, but can't see a mention of it on here. If I'm in the arrangement view and start playback from a point, it will very often start playing back, then, after a few beats, it will, of its own volition, jump straight back to the start point again, before playing on normally.

Immensely annoying. Does anyone else get this? Most of the time when it happens it then happens repeatedly every time until I quit and restart.

db · Post by db » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:23 pm

How exactly do you start the sequencer?

When you doubleclick into the timeline in Live, it may happen that you trigger play with your first click and trigger another play (flashing triangle) at the same position, so Live jumps back to the start position before continuing to play.

You only need to click into the timeline once.

Daniel

Sly One · Post by **Sly One** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:30 pm

Ah, now I assumed I wouldn't be the only one.

I'm definitely not clicking twice, but I'll do some experiments to get some more detail.

no_barcode · Post by **no_barcode** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:56 pm

Happens to me too. Can't figure out when or why. Didn't really bother me, so I never really looked into it. I'll try to pay more attention to what I'm doing when it happens...

sungwei · Post by **sungwei** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:48 am

happens to me too. I think it's just a simple bug. It's not a big deal, but it is pretty annoying.

Sly One · Post by **Sly One** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:44 pm

This happens to a friend of mine "More or less constantly".

He's gone back to Live 4 when using Live "live" in order to avoid it...

I still can't replicate the issue consistently, but I've asked him to try.

Amaury · Post by **Amaury** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:53 pm

Hello,

I'd like to have a very detailed description of conditions and of the behaviour.
Simple one: don't you have the loop unabled in the arrangement?

Does that happen with any set, or just some? If only with some of them, what would they have in common?
If you achieve to find a way to make it happen all the time, let me know.

Kind regards,

Amaury

Synthbuilder · Post by **Synthbuilder** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:18 pm

I've got this problem too. Its never really bothered me, but its been in all the versions of Live 5 I have had.

I can't make it do it, it just sometimes does it and other times not. I would say, perhaps, 1 in every 20, but that is a guess. I generally work in the arrange window.

PC version 5.2.2.

Amaury · Post by **Amaury** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:43 pm

Hi,

Can you detail exactly what happens: you start Live in arrangement view. The playback starts and then restarts from the same point again? Or from somewhere else? Is it always after the same ampount of time? etc...

It will help solving the issue.
Kind regards,
Amaury

Sly One · Post by **Sly One** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:35 am

OK. I work in the arrange window most of the time. This is the only place it seems to happen, I think.

Example case:

I create an arrangement, and start it playing. I hear somethign I don't like, and think "I'd like to go back and hear that again", so I just click on the timeline *while the tune is still playing*, to jump back to earlier in the arrangement.

Often, this will work fine, but sometimes, it will jump back to where I told it to (correctly), then play for a very short period (like a second or less), then jump back to the same point again, and then continue playing normally.

This short segment that gets played is never of a musical length- so it will get a fraction of the way through a bar then playback will just suddenly jump back to the same point again.

THe only way I can replicate this is to sit composing music in arrange mode for an hour or so, moving around in the timeline while the music plays, and it wil happen eventually. However my friend asays it happens pretty much all the time for him.

It does make Live 5 unusable for live applications for both of us.

vinkalmann · Post by **vinkalmann** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:12 am

This happens to me quite a bit, I've never been able to reproduce it consistently though. Then again I didn't try that hard since it's not a huge bug.

signal · Post by **signal** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:39 pm

Something like this happened to me in my first sessions with Live 6.

I launched a scene in Session view and one of the two playing clips continuously jumped back to its start position at an interval independent of quantization setting long before reaching the loop end. Neither the clip stop button nor the main transport stop would respond. Deleting the clip or closing the application was the only way to end it.

I seem to remember changing the soundcard channel routings for Master or Cue/Solo in the Master channel strip immediately upon opening that set. Not sure if this is related as I didn't test extensively.

The set was originally created with the final Live 5 release.