Latency with drone

[Jesse Johannesen]

Well I may have been able to actually recreate the issue on my unit. My findings are that regardless of which 5 pin din input I use, if I am clocking from Ableton out through in my case, a tascam audio interface with midi, I get a similar issue, where occasionally the rhythm of the of the NLDR is inconsistent (I didn't initially have audio monitored on the daw, but it seems possible there would be phase issues), but if I changed sources to literally anything besides Ableton, the issue went away. I tried to figure out a way to record the clock signal out of ableton and analyze the timing but the result was so far off of what I was expecting that I am having doubts about it's validity, (clock time signitures between 3 times/ms - 30 times/ms).

Regardless I planned to try and monitor the results via my Ipad today, but after retrying the initial test, I am no longer getting the weird clock variance. My supposition is that this is the result of a bad clock signal from the DAW but as my results are steady now, I don't have a bad signal to measure. I will try this a few more times over the next couple days and if I can get it to fail again, I'll see if I can record the results again for a second look.

Maltin, if you can please try to clock the NDLR from another source via MIDI A(preferably both through mio and direct) and help me to confirm this is related to the DAW clock. The tests we ran:
ableton > midi A = Wonky
ipad midi app > midi A = Steady
MPC Live > midi A = Steady
Midi Ox from pc > midi A = Steady
and finally today:
ableton > midi A = Steady
then:
restarted ableton > midi A = Steady

Let me know if any of this works better for you and I'll keep you posted if I can get it to mess up again.
Jesse Johannesen