Re: Mobius latency compensation

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

Jeff i have a question,
in playing around with both Abletons looper and Mobius as a plugin
there is a BPM difference when i try to use Mobius as a master with
Ableton which is unfortunately unusable if trying to sync grooves to
it.
Mobius seems to be much better as a slave though,but Abletons looper
is very acurate as a master.Is this something that will work in future
versions just as well when being used as a plugin perhaps?
cheers
Luis






On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> 
wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to set up the above so overdubs go where they should
>> and stay there on subsequent passes.  A couple of attempts have ended
>> in frustration, i figured not helped by the fact that I'm using the
>> built-in soundcard on an old desktop machine.
> If you haven't already done so, read this section of the installation 
>guide:
>    http://www.circularlabs.com/doc/installation.htm#Tuning Latency
>
> Assuming you are using Windows, if you are using the built-in sound card
> you will be using an "MME" driver which has very high latency.  It is
> possible
> for Mobius to compensate for this so that your overdubs will line up but
> you have to enter the right values into the latency fields in the
> Audio Devices window.  Sometimes the driver is able to tell us what
> the latency is, other times it can't and we have to enter it manually.
> This is explained in the manual.
> If you use a pro audio interface it will come with ASIO drivers that
> have very low latency.  Often people don't even bother tuning latency
> compensation since it is so slight that it is hard to hear even if it
> is off by a few milliseconds.
> As an alternative to buying a pro interface you could also try
> ASIO4ALL which will give the built-in sound card an ASIO driver.  I have
> had success with this, but if you're serious about sound quality you
> should still consider an external interface.
>> Reading the previous thread on mobius latency, according to Per it's
>> not possible to achieve perfect sync i.e. it will always drift a bit.
> I'm not sure what this was referring to, but you can certainly tune
> latency compesnation for exact alignment of overdubs and once set it
> won't drift unless you are also changing your physical location
> relative to your monitor speakers.
> Jeff
>



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