L6: Dropout upon first play of loop after recording
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:49 pm
Howdy! Kid Beyond here.
I've upgraded to Live 6, and I'm experiencing
a disconcerting bug with live audio looping.
Live 5: I record a loop in a clip slot, hit its Play
button, the loop starts playing.
Live 6: I record a loop in a clip slot, hit its Play
button, and... there's a dropout (total silence)
upon the first play of the loop. The dropout is
about 5 milliseconds long.
If you download the following Live Pack, you'll
hear what I mean:
http://kidbeyond.com/abetests/dropout
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I recorded a 2-bar loop in the Drums track
(me beatboxing into a live mic), and then let
the loop play twice.
I recorded the above in the Drum Out track,
which gets its audio from the Drum track.
So if you play the clip "6-bar drums":
- Bars 1+2: the live performance
- Bars 3+4: the first play of the loop
- Bars 5+6: the second play of the loop
Notice the dropout at the top of Bar 3
(the first kick is gone!).
Notice how it doesn't happen at Bar 5
(the first kick is there!).
- - - - -
I did the same thing with a 1-bar loop of
speech: me saying "5-6-7-8."
So if you play the clip "3-bar speech":
- Bar 1: the live performance
- Bar 2: the first play of the loop
- Bar 3: the second play of the loop
Notice the dropout at the top of Bar 2
(we hear only the second half of "Five").
Notice how it doesn't happen at Bar 3
(we hear the whole word).
- - - - -
I left the original loops in the Drums
track for your reference ("2-bar drums"
and "1-bar speech"). The loops seem
fine; it's only in the first post-Record
playback (as captured in the Drum Out
track) that the dropout occurs.
- - - - -
I tried the same experiment in Live 5;
the bug did not occur.
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My system:
- Live 6.0.1
- Powerbook G4 15", 1.67 GHz
- OSX 10.4.8
- 2 GB RAM
- Motu Traveler (Firewire)
- Buffer size: 150 samples
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Any thoughts? Has anyone else experienced
this? (I sent this to the support staff too.)
Cheers,
Kid B
I've upgraded to Live 6, and I'm experiencing
a disconcerting bug with live audio looping.
Live 5: I record a loop in a clip slot, hit its Play
button, the loop starts playing.
Live 6: I record a loop in a clip slot, hit its Play
button, and... there's a dropout (total silence)
upon the first play of the loop. The dropout is
about 5 milliseconds long.
If you download the following Live Pack, you'll
hear what I mean:
http://kidbeyond.com/abetests/dropout
- - - - -
I recorded a 2-bar loop in the Drums track
(me beatboxing into a live mic), and then let
the loop play twice.
I recorded the above in the Drum Out track,
which gets its audio from the Drum track.
So if you play the clip "6-bar drums":
- Bars 1+2: the live performance
- Bars 3+4: the first play of the loop
- Bars 5+6: the second play of the loop
Notice the dropout at the top of Bar 3
(the first kick is gone!).
Notice how it doesn't happen at Bar 5
(the first kick is there!).
- - - - -
I did the same thing with a 1-bar loop of
speech: me saying "5-6-7-8."
So if you play the clip "3-bar speech":
- Bar 1: the live performance
- Bar 2: the first play of the loop
- Bar 3: the second play of the loop
Notice the dropout at the top of Bar 2
(we hear only the second half of "Five").
Notice how it doesn't happen at Bar 3
(we hear the whole word).
- - - - -
I left the original loops in the Drums
track for your reference ("2-bar drums"
and "1-bar speech"). The loops seem
fine; it's only in the first post-Record
playback (as captured in the Drum Out
track) that the dropout occurs.
- - - - -
I tried the same experiment in Live 5;
the bug did not occur.
- - - - -
My system:
- Live 6.0.1
- Powerbook G4 15", 1.67 GHz
- OSX 10.4.8
- 2 GB RAM
- Motu Traveler (Firewire)
- Buffer size: 150 samples
- - - - -
Any thoughts? Has anyone else experienced
this? (I sent this to the support staff too.)
Cheers,
Kid B