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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
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Last night's struggle was to sample the basslines of the songs that are going to make it into my 2006 liveset (Channel58 [at least for a while, I'm getting sick of it], Rocker [needs an overhaul], Less Slow, Landstander, and One Night In East Van). Seems like an easy enough task... play the bassline, record into the computer, export as a loop.
*Man*! What a remarkable pain in the ass. After spending three frustrating hours trying to get the gear sync'd up with live, it turns out the magic formula is:
- Live must be the master MIDI clock. Syncing Live to an external clock means baaad jitter.
- The MOTU must be set to a buffer of 96 samples at 48khz/24bit, and Live must be set to -4ms timing correction for audio.
- Live must have *only* one MIDI interface connected, and must be set to -28.50ms MIDI timing correction.
- SPDIF must be disabled, and the MOTU must use it's internal clocking.
SHEESH! Well, with that out of the way, I've now sampled all those basslines, and have almost finished cleaning up the unused programs in the sampler, taking it from over 60 megs of samples down to 20.5 megs.
More tonight. Soon the rig will be ready to actually start writing music on. :)
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