I've finally had a chance to play a bit more with this feature, and while I haven't had much more success, I have got a bit more data. My basic findings are much as before ... Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Ben Kennedy wrote:
I've taken up that challenge and I hereby present a new build which now streams MTC during playback!
Wow, this _almost_ works! I'm not quite sure where the remaining hiccups are, so I'll describe my results. But anyway, I primed the deck to record, and hit Play on DB again .... Behold! DB started audio and the deck started recording! Then, alas! After, I dunno, 10 seconds or so audio output pretty suddenly dropped out, though DB's interface continued to show the "cursor" advancing through the song and the deck kept playing.
I've now tried this with a lot more dbsong files. Behavior seems semi-consistent for a given dbsong. In general, it seems that smaller dbsong files using smaller dbkits work more happily. At least one or two short, loop-type dbsongs with a small kits (like the Djembe kit/song combo) seemed to get MMC-triggered recording going and keep it going without further trouble. Bigger kit/song combos seemed to in general be able to play up to a point, usually 6-20 seconds and then lose audio output. They generally seemed to lose audio output at the same point each time, and it seemed to me that usually they lost audio at some point in the dbsong where new or different samples were being called on. Sometimes pressing play on DB wouldn't trigger the deck, or sometimes it would trigger the deck and there would be no audio output, but in general if you didn't get the record going on one attempt, going back and triggering it again would work. But if the song was determined to die when the first crash cymbal hit, then die there it would. So, I'm not sure where the hiccup is. Perhaps a memory issue? Yet though the problem manifested more consistently with bigger kits/songs, it would sometimes fall over with much smaller kits/songs too. So it could just be some "wires" getting crossed, or some combo of memory trouble and something else. I was careful to make sure that there was only one user logged in on the iBook, and only DB running -- and though it's possible to have a faster CPU and more RAM than I've got, there should I would think be plenty of headroom. If I can, I'll try again with some of those CPU/RAM meter utilities running to see what's up there .... And I'll plead with Ben to take a look at this when he can, because this feature is _so_ close to working, and MMC control would be so amazingly cool :) Cheers, Carl
ps - I also quickly hooked up the Sansamp GT2 with the guitar and it seemed pretty cool. Haven't tried it with the bass [...]
pps - I swapped out my old DOD "Bass Grunge" pedal for the GT2 on the bass set-up I use live, and suddenly my bass sounds like _God_. I just set all the amp knobs to something fairly neutral and used the GT2's "SVT Bass" setting, but with the Mod switch on "Hi Gain" and the "Drive" knob all the way up. That's got a lot of crunch, though without losing the definition, and it retains all the bottom end (where the DOD pedal was a bit thin-sounding). Excellent. I'm psyched to get some more DB drum parts laid down and play lots of loud guitar'n'bass (well, loud in the headphones anyway :) -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/