Re: syncronizing rhythm software (mobius as master)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Louie Angulo
<louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> sounds all good though i wish there were some tutorial videos of this
> or performances with both pushing all the sync midi functions of
> mobius...
> i really want to see how steady it is synced to grooves,i understand
> ambient stuff with no rhythm is no problem
> Luis


(Just some spontaneous ideas:)

The most rock solid "sync" is to layer most audio into one loop. I
mean, avoiding parallel applications/plugins that constantly "play
catch-up" (the MIDI Clock blues).

Parallel loops:
Running Mobius as a slave master, i.e. not following sync, is pretty
tight since it will only have the internal track sync issue to deal
with. You can for example start a drum machine (or a drum loop, or a
live drumming buddy) and record a two bar loop of that in Mobius. Then
you turn off the source sound an hit Instant Multiply x3. You now have
six bars of drums in a repeating two bar pattern. Now use Substitute
to replace a short slice of the drumming close to the end of any bar;
just create an extra ghost hit or a minimal fill. Then you hit Instant
Multiply x3 a second time to double the length of the whole shebang
and use Substitute again to replace at a different place but now with
a slightly more aggressive fill. Voila! In seven seconds you have
created a twelve bar loop with fills that do not sound repetitive
(because they come up at different bars in the music, due to the
periods of 3 bars and 12 bars).

When using Substitute this way in Mobius you may also use Secondary
Feedback to control how much of the old layers will be substituted. I
personally like "Secondary Feedback = 64" to create a pocket in the
mix for Substitute added fills etc.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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