Appreciate the thoughts, thanks!
A Cymatics Utrack on Mac1, a MOTU Ultralite MK3 on Mac2.
The MOTU is DC-Coupled. Not sure about the Cymatics, can’t find that info.
Definitely not these. I’m on Repitch and I’ve checked all the clips carefully.
I’m thinking it’s because of buffer overruns caused by high CPU. Gonna be testing it extensively soon hopefully!
Because I need negative delay compensation for everything to hit on the beat, also I need to start everything 4 bars early to make sure my Infiltrator patterns loop in the right places etc.
So I need the Hapax to start a tiny bit before the 1 on the fourth bar.
Also, I need separate clock signals for the Hapax, Deluge, and Mac 2, it’s easier to move them all around on the grid and get everything lined up when the audio comes back in.
Final reason… I don’t record often (my rig is for live playing) but when I do I want everything recorded perfectly tight. After extensive testing, I learned the Hapax has a certain amount of latency (like every device), and this latency changes according to the BPM.
There’s a fairly linear relationship, you can see it by doing many recordings and then holding up a clear ruler to the monitor, it’s a straight line.
So I have many tracks for audio-sync, a track for every 10BPM, from 70BPM up to 200BPM. Then when recording I’ll switch to the closest BPM that helps the Hapax to line up even more perfectly (the different BPM sync-tracks are lined up very slightly differently etc).
When I’m not recording (ie most of the time) I just use the 120BPM sync-track, cos I don’t care that much and it’s actually pretty tight anyway.
Hope that makes sense!