At 196bpm, at about 2min, I began to trigger pads in "16 Beats" in grouping of 8th notes, and a few 16th notes. By minute 3 Tempest drifts late. I am recording my tests. I checked, both listening and looking at Tempest and the Pro Tools recorded clicks. I began recording around 3:30 and then 5:00 on the timeline. Both start tight, then drift.
Then I began recording at 6 seconds on timeline, and it went 1:30 with no drift. (Only both clicks. No Beats, no triggering.)
I have recordings capturing it all. Of course, I accept it can be user configuration error. I'm puzzled.
The trend that's surfacing:
The combination of triggering Beats too fast in "16 Beats" plus faster tempos (under 250bpm) is leading to drift; when timeline is beyond 3:00. (Starting PT playback at 0:06, reset tight sync of clicks only).
I'm beginning to think don't trigger beats too fast when at faster tempos. That's a bummer for me.
There's no way to say this in a cool way- but I've got really fast fingers.
I'd like other fast fingered Tempest users to trigger Beats fast, 1/8 & 1/16th notes, with tempos in the 196-250bpm zone. While synced to a DAW.
I'll either find:
- my own user error
- Limitations of Tempest
To put it in context: I'm entering a lower priority zone with expecting sync to stay steady with fast triggerings at fast tempos. From what I am gathering, slower tempos, with slower pad triggerings yields forever tight sync. (30 minutes, for sure.)
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What I didn't write in my post last night on the main bugs thread was that I was purposefully stressing the deal by playing fast notes (maybe 1/8, triplet 8ths, and random successive 1/16ths) at those fast tempos.