Re: new sync feature for Augustus Loop/Live users

[Os <os@collective.co.uk>]

Hi Per,

no, it shouldn't do that, that sounds horrid. I guess I'll take a
look, see if I can reproduce it. It might help if you could mail me
the AU preset so I know I'm using the same settings.

By the way, please mail me direct or use my forum for bug reports - I
only check this list in digest mode and it's easy to miss stuff.


cheers,
os.


>
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:13:40 +0100
> From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: new sync feature for Augustus Loop/Live users
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> 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
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>

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