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Hardware latency-issue with BM3/AUM
Hi,
I have quite recently started making music on my iPad 9.7 6th gen. I currently work mostly with Beatmaker 3 and various AUv3 synths. Works well! But lately I tried to add some hardware to the mix. I bought a DinSync RE-303 and a Roland SE-02 and this is where my problems begins.
For example, if I have a drum loop with FunkBox or Patterning 2 going in BM3 and try to sync this with the RE-303 and its internal sequencer I get latency-problems. It feels like the re-303 is totally off-beat.
I run BM3 with a latency buffer of 512. The re-303 runs through the Steinberg UR44. If I change the buffer-size to 256 or below the problem goes away. But then I get some serious cracks and pops in the sound instead so that's not an option. I get similar results with AUM.
The other day I accidentally discovered that if I run a certain patch in the reverb plugin EOS2 on the re-303 it will fall into sync. Feel free to listen to the linked file where I turn on and off the EOS2 patch. You hear quite clearly when I turn it off around 25sec in and when i turn it back on again around 39sec in.
Now I wonder how you all get around this problem? Is there possibly an app/plugin/setting that does the compensation I get with the eos2 patch?
Thanks in advance!
/Andreas
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I record an OP-Z into BM3 with no problems, but I tend to record OP-Z loops as samples, and then use them that way.
I’ve never really worried about buffer size. I keep it high, unless I’m recording a guitar direct.
Are you syncing the 303 direct with BM3, using BM3’s own midi sync?
Thanks for your response!
Yes, I'm using BM3s own midi-sync. So when I press play in bm3 the 303 sequencer starts playing.
Same with AUMs send midi clock.
Try it the other way around — pressing start on the 303 to trigger BM3.
Also, you don’t need to sync midi clock just to get start-stop sync. If that’s on, turn it off
Cool, I'll test that when I get home! Thanks!
Triggering BM3 from the 303 worked a lot better in terms of latency. Everything feels in sync.
But now I got another problem that I'm not able to solve. When I try to add an AUv3 unit to a channel the 303 sequencer will play that synth as well. Same thing if use the Behringer RD-8 as start stop. The drum sequence will play the selected synth in BM3. I've tried numerous different settings in both the hardware and in BM3 but when I get sequence to stop the startstop will also go away. Tried to disable the output channel in both hardware but that didn't work.
And I was not able to disable sync in bm3 because then the tempo is off.
Any tips?
You have to set the synth's midi receive channel to a different one than the 303's
Many synths are set to midi 'omni' (receive on all channels
Ah true, thanks! I'll try that. But I´m not sure that I'm able to change that in all synths that I use.