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Tempo lag

admviolinadmviolin
edited January 2014 in General
I'm guessing this is a software thing more than anything, but the other day I was working on my performance setup and LXR was out of sync with Ableton.  The BPM was set to external etc etc, but it just wasn't matching up with clips.  I was using the USB from the LXR if that matters.

If I changed the BPM to the songs tempo and manually hit start, everything was fine though.

Anyone have any recommendations?  I know Ableton has individual track delay...should I mess around with that?

Comments

  • rudeogrudeog
    Was it running at the same tempo? How much lag between the beat in ableton and the beat on the lxr?
  • admviolinadmviolin
    they were the same tempo....just enough off time to sound bad.  I imagine I need to use track delay to compensate, just not sure how much.  Thought there might be a trick :)
  • rudeogrudeog
    Interested to know if this only happens with USB midi.
  • ceaslessceasless
    I've just got my studio set up in the new house and playing around with Ableton after spending a lot of time in Usine. I'll give it a try with DIN MIDI when I get a chance!
  • admviolinadmviolin
    edited January 2014
    It's the only thing I've ever used USB midi on...regular midi I think is fine.

    EDIT:  DIN MIDI seems to be the same...I'm blaming Ableton, and just need to figure out track delay I think.
  • strstr
    I just tried adjusting my MIDI clock sync delay by setting it to the estimated ASIO latency (10.9 ms) in my setup. 

    http://i.imgur.com/5kjKSd1.png

    Sounds much better with the metronome now. I have no idea if using the ASIO latency makes sense, but it's sounding good on my end! 
  • julianjulian
    so did you compensate for the latency from ableton?
    otherwise ableton will always lag behind the LXR.
    That is if ableton does not compensate the latency on it's midi outs, which i doubt. (altough not sure here)
  • rudeogrudeog
    Just tried this (sync LXR to DAW) In reaper I get a 31 millisecond lag (lxr is 31 ms behind reaper) (using midi din). When I sync to my MPC (mpc is master lxr is slave), the LXR is 3 milliseconds behind MPC (not noticeable).

    In reaper I can ADD delay to the midi clock (ie making the LXR even more delayed) but not subtract, so not sure what's going on there. Guess I need to figure out how to delay reaper or get it to behave better.

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