Standalone Sync Issues.

[mus257]

I've been working with Mobius for a few weeks and it's really interesting, but I'm having some issues.

I'm on XP with an ECHO Gina card (which could be the problem.)

I'm using the standalone version and am having issues losing sync. I can get loops to stay together for a little bit, but then they go totally out with each other and eventually resync. It's especially bad if there are loops of different lengths, but even one track alone will seem to cut itself a little differently each time.

I've been scouring the manual, but there's a lot to cover and it's kind of confusing. I do audio system design work, so I know how to set this stuff up, normally, but it's just not happening. My best guess is it's the hardware.

Another clue is that in my Cubase SX (version 2 I'm afraid) it won't receive audio and only the main window shows up. No other input selection window that the manual mentions.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks for he awesome program!

[Jeff]

Sync is a complicated topic, so let's narrow it down. From what you describe it sounds like you want to make several tracks that stay in sync with each other rather than trying to synchronize to an external MIDI clock or VST host correct?

If so, you will need to use the Track Sync Mode parameter to ensure that the tracks you record are exact multiples of each other. If you try to do this manually the tracks will never be an exact multiple and they will gradually drift out of sync.

If you are using Sync Mode = Out to generate a MIDI clock there are other issues but you would still use Track Sync Mode to record the tracks.

It's been awhile since I used Cubase but older hosts can have trouble dealing with a plugin like Mobius that is both an "instrument" that recieves MIDI and an "effect" that receives audio. You'll need to find the right place to insert the plugin in Cubase, usually this is a track insert but there might be some kind of bus effect insert. How you then get MIDI into this I'm not sure.
If you inserted it into a MIDI track to get MIDI control that's probably the problem since MIDI tracks don't get audio.