Mono & beat light

  • Two questions really.


    A) what contributes to stereo field on a patch.
    I want to eliminate these as I want to use 6 mono outs and add/control the stereo field in the daw (ableton)
    I assume this means I need to look at:
    Delay, reverb, unison pan, panorama, mod matrix
    Any others?
    Then in multi use out1r, out1l etc


    B) I use midi clock - external, and not VC - beat light is out of time
    When I'm doing multi part, I see the beat light flashing out of time when I send notes on multiple channels.
    As soon as I stop sending notes it goes back in time.
    Is the virus midi clock not keeping up?
    Notes:
    I connect other daws to abletons midi clock and don't see this,
    I've tried other daws and see the same.
    I've tried USB and physical ports - the same
    This is not latency, as it keeps in time whilst no/few notes are sent,
    appears to be 'jitter'.
    There is no note stealing, or any indication the virus is not keeping up.


    Question is, is it just the led - or is the clock really behind
    ( an issue for clocked LFO)


    I'm a bit confused, as it cannot be too much data, as notes being played with no latency
    - and the midi clock data is mixed in...
    Is the virus processing at a lower priority?


    Am I better off using unclocked LFO or is that timing likely to be off too?


    Marc, thoughts? Best practices?


    Ti1 kbd, 5.0.7, osx 10.9.1, ableton 9.1.1, reason 7

  • (B) is solved, I was incorrect... USB is actually OK (as is VC), i must have had some weirdness going on when I tested it ... it would appear the physical midi ports just cannot cope with the volume of data!
    fyi, I was only playing for monophonic tracks at 120bpm, was immediately out of sync... switch to USB, no issue, I could crank up track to 250+ bpm and no issue at all.
    fully reproducible for physical midi... so I will now be avoiding the physical midi ports.