[ardour-dev] Stumbling motorized faders

[Joe Hartley]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:53:24 +0100
Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:57:00 +0100, Pau Arumi wrote:
> > Now the main problem I face is that I get the motorized faders moving 
> > very stumbled (not smoothly). Like if ardour was sending update values 
> > in too long lapses of time. Note that this only happen with recorded 
> > automation: when I move the fader with the mouse I get very smooth 
> > movements in the motorized slider.
> 
> I've seen that behaviour with sother software if theres a feedback or echo
> in the midi data somehow.

I disconnected the BCF->ardour MIDI connection, so there wasn't a
chance of it wrapping back on itself, and I didn't see any change in
the fader behavior.  I'm not past thinking that this _is_ a US$200 
piece of gear.  Somehow I'm thinking it's never going to feel like a Neve.

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