Loving my Play!!! But I’m having a few issues getting it to sync whith Protools as the master (midi via Motu Microlite).
Play often drops the first beat in the pattern when pressing play/record in Protools
Audio from play is not on the grid and the amount by which it is off is different each time I press play/record.
If I press stop in protools, the Play stops but if I go back to song start and press play in protools the Play starts the pattern wherever it was when it was stopped, not the start of the pattern
I’m going to assume that you are sending MIDI out from your Microlite to the MIDI Jack input on the Play. Could you confirm that your Play has both the Clock In and Transport In set to MIDI In Jack please?
I’ve had similar issues in the past in Bitwig. What work best for me is to start tracks with an empty bar in the DAW, to circumvent any sync issues.
By the time it reaches the next bar everything should have synced up and then play correctly, which then makes recording the Play into the DAW pretty easy.
OK, sorry to answer my own questions, but maybe this will help somebody with similar issues.
In order to get the audio from the Play to synch with the grid when using Protools as the MTC/Transport master I need to do a few things.
On the Play I need to press play/stop twice. The first time illuminates (orange) all the buttons corresponding to step one of the current pattern. The second time… ehhh… UNilluminates them. This seems to reset the pattern to step one.
If I now press play or record in Protools the audio is synced to the click.
However, doing this still Drops the audio of step one.
If I add a measure or of preroll in Protools it solves this problem which is OK as I’m just looping one pattern. If you have a whole song (chain) I guess the first pattern would need to be blank so you don’t lose the measure of Audio that is playing during preroll.
I have reloaded the most current firmware and this seems to have fixed two things:
The Play displays the correct BPM when synced with protools
The Audio seems to be better aligned with the grid
The only problem left really is that when I press Record or Play in protools, The Polyend Play does not play audio stored in Step 1 of the pattern.
I can solve this by adding a measure of pre-roll to protools but then I get the sample/echo/reverb tails at the start of the audio file as the Play has been playing audio during preroll.
Technically, the Play is still skipping step one Audio in this scenario, it’s just doing it during the one measure of preroll.
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