Hey hey hello! It is my habit to do more complex arrangements in Ableton and then mix those down to a very limited number of stems which get loaded onto the Octatrack and used, as stems/backing tracks, when I play live.
Every once in a while, for reasons that are unknown, a song gets fucked up where one of the stems will be several measures late or in advance of the others. The latest example of this I have a song where there are only two stems (one is drums and the other is every other instrument in the song except drums). The drum stem appears to be exactly 2 bars in front of where it should be. I know this by hearing snare builds and reverse crash cymbals building up to a main pattern that doesn’t happen on the other stem for another 2 bars. Things that I know for a fact:
- Both stems are 120 BPM and exactly 152 measures in length.
- When I pull both stems out of the OT and place in a DAW, layered, they line up as expected.
- The OT thinks that both files are 120 BPM and exactly 152 measures in length.
- Both stems are trig’d on the first step of the same one bar pattern. They both do get trig’d at the same time.
WHAT IN TARNATION??? (halp)
