Re: Ableton EDP LP1

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Phil Clevenger
<phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone out there have good luck slaving EDP (Loop4)  or LP1 (1.39) to
> Ableton Live 8's MIDI clock ?

No. Allow an educated guess that some people on the other hand are
having good luck slaving to pulse/beat. ;-))  This is because MIDI
Clock tempo sync is a system where the slaving device needs to go out
and measure its own speed compared to the master's speed and then
proceed with adjustments of its own speed - but at that stage the
master clock might already have drifted away. Bottom line: Slaving
device is always late, playing constant catch-up.

When I tried syncing EDP after a beat/pulse it followed well. But most
of the times I never sync a looper, I sync other gear, including
software host applications. For my music that works better.

> EDP seems to do better at  keeping in synch initially, but  there is a
> glitch every 12 cycles or so that just tosses it completely out of synch.
> That glitch could be the fault of any number of things, too broad to
> diagnose here...

Sorry no idea what that can be. Never heard of it. Are you sure you
don't have any MIDI cable inserted when this phenomenon occurs? If so
it can be cause by some unknown incoming external MIDI data.

> LP1 seems to lazily drift just enough to make me crazy, only takes a 
> minute
> or so of cycling before it is out of synch. The synch probs of 1.39 are
> fairly well documented, but I could swear I had this working well at some
> point in the past...
>
> Not looking for a diagnosis in the dark from a distance,

Astrology: Mercury is RETROGRADE! ;-)

Per