Cycling 74 » Topic: seq midi drifting out of sync http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:29:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-57783 <![CDATA[seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-57783 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:19:27 +0000 jsr_ this might be close to a double post, i admit. it is the same problem as described here: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=34061

but i have come closer to the problem and i realize it is not a jitter problem, it is a problem with seq. i posted the other thread in the jitter subforum, this one now goes in the max/msp subforum.

when i play back a midi track exported from pro tools with the ‘seq’ object the midi information is drifting out of sync with audio + video. quite a lot.

is there a way to make the seq run tighter? perhaps in with timecode from the video? or with use of the ‘tick’ messages triggered by a metronome?

the midi file was exported from protools with a session running 120BPM. the same behavior happens if i record the midi data with the seq object, and play it back afterwards.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207312 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207312 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:08:11 +0000 Patrick Delges There is a small patch a the bottom of this topic that may help you:

http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=9369

I don’t know Jitter well, but I suppose you could regularly ask jit.qt.movie its position with the gettime message to send seq tick messages as regularly as possible (48 messages / second). But I may be wrong…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207313 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207313 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:07:30 +0000 jsr_ gettime looks promising… but it only sends a msg every second. how would i go about getting 48 ticks/sec out of that?

ps: for reference: i added my current patch to this thread: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=34061#post-165215

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207314 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207314 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:37:56 +0000 Patrick Delges gettime is as fast as you send it to jit.qt.movie. I can get values every couple of ms.

But it may indeed not be the right way… What if you sync your movie and your seq to a soundfile?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207315 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207315 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:44:30 +0000 jsr_ hm… this is interesting. perhaps i could even have that soundfile as a separate track in QT, routing it to max via something like soundflower?

but please explain, what is the sync that is coming out of an audio file? is it a tick on every sample, so sample rate based? what should this audio file contain?

and how is this more stable than just making some metro with the right tempo?

thanks!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207316 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207316 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:59:25 +0000 Patrick Delges There is no sync from an audio file per se, but its speed is much more accurate than Max’ internal scheduler.

As you saw in the other topic, the position in a soundfile is given as a signal (it doesn’t depend on Max’ scheduler), so it’s refreshed at every vector.

To get those 48 ticks every sec., you could also imagine to have a sound file embedded in the QT movie with 48 digital clicks every second and analyse this file (with a change~ for instance). Unfortunately I see that spigot~ is only stereo.

Not sure soundflower is the right way to go for an installation…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207317 <![CDATA[Re: seq midi drifting out of sync]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/seq-midi-drifting-out-of-sync/#post-207317 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:04:14 +0000 jsr_ thanks for clearing this up.

max is truly a different way of programming. but i like it :)

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