in logic, are you syncing nl with outboard midi gear or vst softsynths?
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Hey everyone, so I haven't been messing around with it too much this weekend (been busy getting ready to move to a new house). The delay functions in Logic didn't help me any, and I think the issue is something more troubling that that. As I said, the Nanoloop runs in sync with Logic (they start/stop at the same time and are communicating), but Nanoloop is running nearly at half speed as Logic (about 75% slower), which seems like a bigger problem than minor latency.
I'm still investigating and will post if I figure anything else out.
daSID wrote:
haha blaming the link cable was my first instinct -should of went with it
esp. since i thought it odd someone who could build a sync device wouldn't know how to slave nl.
so have you solved the logic issue? I use logic as well, and will soon enough have a nl usb sync thingee, so I would love to know your resolve in case i run into the same problem.
I haven't exactly solved the issue, but I don't think Logic is at fault here – probably it's either the Teensy (unlikely) or the GB link cable (more likely) or something else I haven't thought of yet (most likely).
That being said, I wouldn't recommend you use the Teensy sync, unless you just want to do it as a quick, fun project. It isn't stable enough (for me) for a live performance, because it skips notes in Nanoloop roughly about once every 50 notes (or maybe once every hundred).
I know that seems like insignificant because it's just 1% of the notes, right? Well, it actually skips a note about every 30 seconds, and from what I've read in other Teensy tutorials / discussion forums there's no way of making this any better.
And when I say "skip," I mean there's just a blank, totally silent beat where none of the tracks play. It's pretty noticeable and distracting in the middle of a song.
I've ordered an Arduinoboy kit from Meow Meow Meow:
http://www.meowmeowmeow.bigcartel.com/p … ammed-chip
And I think this will just have to be the way I go.
daSID wrote:
in logic, are you syncing nl with outboard midi gear or vst softsynths?
Well I'm actually not syncing to anything but backing tracks in Logic. I have an album's worth of recorded material, but the songs have backing keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, etc along with two GBs, and there are only 2 people in my band (including me), so we need to be able to have the GBs run by themselves in sync with backing tracks we've already recorded and then have ourselves able to run around on stage with other instruments.
But as long as you get it in sync, you shouldn't have any problems with outboard MIDI gear or VST instruments.
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