Hey guys, I have a strange issue I’m trying to find a root cause for. I’m using Enso, a looping VST from audio damage:
It’s a really solid looper with a great GUI, easy midi mappings, auto quantize for start/stop and triggers - it’s doing most everything I want it to really well, save for one thing - it only supports one loop within the VST. So, I set up a few instances, mapped them all to different bindings for controllers, and voila - multi channel looping. Or so I thought. I noticed that if I looped something percussive, and looped another percussive beat over it, I started to hear sync drift (it was much harder to hear this on melodic instruments, but over longer periods even there it became apparent). Playing the exact same beat over itself, you can hear on each subsequent loop the harmonic overtone shifting up as the frequency overlap slightly shifts on each beat, and after about 45 seconds the drift was enough that you can hear there is at least 15ms shift or so. So the multiple instances of the VST’s are absolutely drifting a consistent amount, every loop around against the master clock. So far I have tried:
- vst2 vs vst3
- stopping and restarting the audio within the VST
- longer and shorter recorded loops
- using less additionally loaded plugins
No differences with any - exactly the same presentation, every time. I have reached out to audio damage about this as well.
I also loaded two instances of the plugin into Cubase and tested similarly and over 5 minutes there is no perceivable drift - so this appears to be specific to Cantabile in some way. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Jeff