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This afternoon I played around with Ableton Live to see myself how it works with Synfire. Admittedly, despite its entirely different workflow and purpose, Live is indeed a very capable companion for hosting virtual instruments for Synfire.
To some extent, it is even better suited than Logic, because the way it allows for setting the midi input port for each track directly in the mixer is much easier to handle than Logic's environment window with channel splitters and such.
Here's a quick take of my session:
(http://www.cognitone.com/support/tutorials/show.stml?o=10038)
The screencast is not narrated, but I hope it is still helpful.
Those who have Live installed anyway might want to check out if it works as a host for them too.
Andre
Thu, 2009-02-05 - 21:30 Permalink
(this is a duplicate post, but it suits fine here:)
I don't see such tempo changes here. Please check the following things:
1) Constant tempo in Synfire (it can handle tempo maps, but this is just for testing). Be sure only the root container defines one contant Tempo parameter.
2) Send both MIDI clock and MTC (time code) to your sync port.
That should do it.
If Live is a bit behind time, we could implement a latency setting in Synfire that compensates for this.
Andre
Edit: I was stupid: Takeover mode is for midi controllers, not synch.
It seems that Live takes a while to synch correctly. After a second or so, everything runs fine here, though.