Hi,
Is it possible to capture via OB the midi notes played by the DAW in the A4 sequencer ?
I’d like to program a sequence in my DAW, then let it play while direct recording it in the A4, in order to work on the sequence with slides, p_locks, etc.
I know it works when A4 is controlled via external midi tracks, it’s very useful for me.
Otherwise, I use OB in the MPC software (MPC touch that I finally bought), and it works efficiently. Bravo Elektron !
I had this problem too - I like to build my initial drum kits and patterns in an Ableton drum rack then send everything the Rytm to finalise with p-locks (and now probabilities and fills!).
Seems that live record mode won’t work on the boxes when they’re in overbridge mode, even though they’re receiving note triggers from the daw.
Eventually, I switched off my A4 and Rytm plugins, went into preferences and reactivated midi out to the Rytm, as well as sync, started Live’s sequencer and the Rytm running in live record mode, then played my clip. Then switched the midi stuff back off again and the plugins back on.
The notes recorded more or less ok, but the timing is off - I had pretty heavy swing on the Ableton clip, but instead of preserving that timing, it looks like every single trig is 3/128 early. Can always edit the trigs back to straight and use the Rytm’s own swing, but still.
Not a great solution, hopefully there’s a better way.
Yeah, switching beetween plugin and midi tracks seems to be the best workaround… for now ? (I hope it maybe be fixed in a future update)
However it’s not really an issue, compared to the advantages overbridge give…
Hi Benway,
did you try to notate the latency of OB and then using that same Latency for the manual compensation of an “external Instrument” Plugin in live? then the latency issue should be gone.
Greetings
Goat
Cheers! No, while I used an external instrument plug, I didn’t bother to set up its latency compensation - to be honest it was just as quick to manually move the trigs into place and apply swing there. Will have to experiment some more with this, as Live’s groove functionality can do things the Rytm can’t.
It’s interesting that the plugin saves pattern settings in total recall, seems that the first steps have been taken towards the promised pattern editor within Overbridge. Would be great if eventually you could drag and drop midi clips (o hai Elektron).
same problem here and the midiport-workaround doesnt work for me 