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Originally Posted by narco  and thats what I was refering to (obviously) 
narco |
Yah... unadjusted track misalignment is one of my personal pet peeves. When I had a PCI based card and my misalignment was under 5 ms I was philosophical.
By the time I got my MOTU 828mkII (a FW box, ov course) I sort of hoped all that stuff was a thing of the past and that things would line up in the DAW.
Wrong again...
I'd tracked a bongo part and -- while I'm certainly not the most precise hand percussionist around -- when I played back what I thought was mostly a keeper I was amazed... the whole thing just sounded
off... every single hit.
I decided right then and there to test my overdub alignment per (in essence) a ping loopback and was mildly shocked to see around 8 ms of misalignment from my analog copy to the original.
I was also kind of amazed that 8 silly little milliseconds could make enough of a diff to sink the whole track... I mean... it's not unlike sitting the bongo guy about 7-1/2 feet from the mic, for heck's sake. But when I nudged my bongo track the measured 356 sample difference it sounded "right" (I'm STILL not a great bongo player -- but at least it sounded like what I put down!
)
Anyhow, I'm hoping CW really did make good on Ron Kuper's promise to address the issue (with at least a Tracktion-like calibration utility). According to a couple early reports they did. But this ish is NOT at the top of everyone's list...
