Hi elektronauts !
I have been investigating with digitakt and overbridge in reaper.
So far here are my conclusions :
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Overbridge is more stable and works much better using a dedicated audio interface (my tiny audient ID4 does the job). I guess it is related to USB Bandwidth or something. Setting usb only in digitakt also helps. Regarding the settings of the audio interface, 48kHz with a 256 or 512 buffer does the job.
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The main issue with overbridge in reaper is sync. On that matter I found out a few things :
- The track with overbridge has to be armed. There is more latency if the track is not armed (Native instrument maschine has also the same behaviour in reaper)
- Sync option of OB plugin does not work with reaper. As indicated in the OB manual, one solution is to set OB to “no sync” and to set reaper to send midi clock to digitakt, and set digitakt to receive clock and transport.
- making DT a slave of reaper works but I didn’t succeed in doing the opposite in reaper that is making reaper a slave of the DT clock.
- Finally, even using reaper clock, take care to add the option “No SPP/position” when configuring the clock in reaper. Otherwise, sync will have a very strange behavior. Alternatively, one can only set digitakt to receive transport and not clock : if reaper tempo and digitakt tempo are the same, it will stay in sync.
I hope it will help those that uses reaper and elektron devices.
If any of you has something to add regarding reaper and OB, I am all ears.