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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 > Message-Id: <35519F5A-D6A0-49BF-B8D1-800B1CD7DD78@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > 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 > -- os@collective.co.uk http://www.collective.co.uk/