I’ve got Overbridge running pretty well through live, all the individual outs have been routed properly, I really enjoy this feature.
My first problem stems from what appears to be about a 1 beat delay between Ableton/OB and the sound coming out of the Rytm. I have the sync to host feature on but when I press play, the sequencer on the Rytm starts going for almost a full beat before any sound comes out. This makes it aggravating to play live and record any beats (which is my main purpose with Overbridge). Anyone have any ideas? I’ve set the latency to 128 in both my Live preferences and the OB plugin.
My second problem arises from within the OB/Rytm plugin itself. It seems none of my effect settings work with OB. The settings show up but don’t actually affect the sound. When I play the Rytm through my audio interface without a connection to OB, the effects come through and work fine. Is there a setting I have to change in the OB plugin? How come OB isn’t registering the effects?
These two problems are hindering me from actually using Overbridge at the moment. The delay I can slightly adapt to by making changes on the Rytm a beat earlier than it should, but the effects not working is killing my vibe, man!
I haven’t used my gear in over 3 months, excuse my error, I forgot that Elektron boxes route their effects through the master output, and since I’m running individual outs, the sound bypasses the effects.
So my only problem is the delay in syncing Overbridge with the Analog Rytm.
I thought the same thing about the sync. Tonight i started everything up and i was getting no sound. turned the boxes off and back on and I am getting sound but still either don’t get sound for the first few seconds or it is broken crackles and pops then comes through clean.
I’m not sure I may be mixing up something here but your second issue seems to be by design: The FX are sends that get summed into the stereo output of your RYTM. So if you use the individual outputs, the main outs become an FX track. The FX can not be applied to the individual output because that would mean each reverb/delay would have to be an insert effect, say on your kick, clap etc. – they’re sends, though.
Similar to Logic. You can put a reverb on your snare track, your clap, your kick etc. which means you need 3 plugins or you can create a reverb bus and send snare, clap, kick etc. to the same single reverb effect (that’s the “proper” way to go to save resources and “glue” fx). If you’d then output the snare before the send (as the RYTM does with the individual outs) you’d get a dry snare.
The individual outputs are designed for multitrack applications where you’d apply some mixing (including fx) afterwards. Or you can use the main out as an fx track only which will hit the limits of OB, however. You’ll need an audio interface with enough channels rather than OB if you want to go this route.