Hi guys, think ill need some help here.
I have the OT synced to the A4. OT as master.
Audio outputs of A4 goes into AB on OT. Tempo is set to 66BPM
After/when recording with the pickup machine the whole BPM changes.
And its all a mess…
What have i missed here? The global BPM changes after recording a sample?
Enlighten me, please!
To be clear, the whole “composition” so far is on the A4, there is nothing on the OT yet. So i am trying to make some loops on the OT (while listening to the A4), and use the pickupmachine and record and BPM changes…and the song falls apart so to speak.
I experienced the OT making some wild BPM guesses (after syncing to the pickUp machines - assuming that this is what you do. can you confirm?). especially with slow BPM and ‘odd’ bar counts (by that I mean bar counts not being multiples of 4… does that make sense?) I always had to go into the sample properties and re-adjust the bpm (and with it the correct bar count)
this thread shows my troubles with pick up machines (similar issue to yours I described somewhat lengthy about half way on the first page. you can skip my first contribution(s))
I havent had this for a long time but have a really hard time getting familiar with this. But what i would like is to maintain the Global tempo BPM after i have recorded samples on the pickup machine. Dont know if its the same problem as you have encountered but for me the BPM just changes automatically when im doing recording/overdub on the pickup machine.
Obviosly because the OT favours the BPM of the recorded sample instead of sticking to the global Bpm. So how can i maintain the BPM while recording some samples from my synth or guitar ? Will the bpm change if i use the thru machine instead?
When I was first getting acquainted with the pickup machine I adjusted the QREC setting to PLEN, the recording length to however many steps (64 in this case), and played guitar along with the onboard metronome. I used the “quick record” function so I had as much time as possible to get both hands back on the guitar before the recording was initiated. I was able to build up some short loops for resampling purposes using this method, and they were always in time with the global BPM. The drawback is that I was boxed into the constraints of the sequencer, which sounds like what tasmansea is trying to avoid, but for your purposes, I don’t see why some similar adjustments in the Recording Setup menus wouldn’t help.
There is a few thing you can do, set the number of steps that you think us appropriate for the pickup machine, as someone here suggested… for example 64 steps to make 4 bar loop, or 16 to make a short loop… (or what ever… even 1 )
Start recording and the record length will stop after wanted number of steps…
OR create a master loop, with properties as above, and the play around with a second pickup machine, as long as the FIRST on have a set length the second one should not change the BPM…
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