Re: new sync feature for Augustus Loop/Live users

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

Woah.  At first I was all, "Oh that's not too bad" but
by the end I was holding my ears yelling "SPOCK!"

--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 nov 2006 Os wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > this might be of interest to some - new in
> yesterday's release of
> > Augustus Loop. From the manual:
> >
> > "Essentially this is a workaround for a limitation
> in Ableton Live, in
> > that Live reports rounded tempo values to hosted
> plug-ins when
> > externally synced by MIDI clock. For example, if
> Live receives clocks
> > at a tempo of 114.6bpm, it will tell its hosted
> plug-ins that the
> > tempo is 115bpm. Why it does this remains
> something of a mystery.
> >
> > "This is a problem if you are using multiple
> instances of Augustus
> > Loop in a Live song, with one AL set to generate
> MIDI clock, Live
> > synced to that clock, and the other ALs set to
> 'Host Tempo' mode. When
> > you use Tap Record to record your loop in the
> master AL, the other ALs
> > will be given a slightly wrong tempo by Live and
> the loops will be out
> > of sync.
> >
> > "Turning on 'rounded tempo' in AL solves this
> problem by only ever
> > generating MIDI clock at rounded values. The
> downside is that the loop
> > length will not be quite what you wanted, but it
> may be good enough,
> > depending largely on your musical style and
> whether you record the
> > first loop 'silent' simply to set the tempo.
> >
> > "With this mode turned on, when you use Tap Record
> the loop end will
> > be slightly later than when you tap to close the
> loop. E.g. if you
> > record a loop that would have a tempo of 122.3bpm,
> AL actually keeps
> > recording until the loop length matches a tempo of
> 122bpm."
> 
> 
> When I'm re-pitching the loop while overdubbing I
> get harsh noise  
> when going from a slow speed to a much faster. Is
> this intended in  
> the plug-in?
> 
> Not that it sounds totally bad, I'm just curious.
> Here's an audio  
> example of playing an EWI's audio through Augustus
> Loop 1.6.1 while  
> also feeding the plug-in with the MIDI note data
> generated by the EWI  
> playing (warning for those harsh noise sounds - do
> not crank this mp3  
> in headphones):
> 
> http://www.looproom.com/audio/EWI_Augustus_Noise.mp3
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
> 
> 
> 
> 



 
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