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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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com