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Turntable DVS pitch bend
I have a DDJ 1000 with MacBook Pro 2018 i7 16 GB and Technics 1200 MKIIs. I have Latency set down to 5.8 ms. I have Rekordbox Vinyl. When using DVS and I'm just slightly off beat, a little fast in this case, and I lightly touch the side of the platter along the dots it seems that I have really press hard, an exaggerated touch, to get a response from Rekordbox. The exaggerated touch usually ends up invoking too much of a pitch bend. The same seems true for pitch bending forward but not as bad. It's almost seems that the software is somehow compensating for slight variations. If it was real vinyl the same touch would have sent the tracks very noticeably out of sync. I've tried turning off master tempo and it doesn't seem to alter the issue.
As a test I put on two exact vinyl copies of a song and set the pitch on both tables to be exactly same where I could do the old school vinyl way of "Flanging" effect where a slight touch pull (pitch -) and forward push (pitch +) creates alters the depth of the flange. With vinyl with the near perfect sync I can ride the effect for several bars ~128 beats. Too much of a slight touch you will hear the double beat and lose the effect. Not altering the pitch of the turntables and load same MP3 version of the same exact track, line them up and perform same touch I hear the double beat but is as if the software is "snapping back" to get them back in sync, pushing or pulling I see the BPM counter compensate. Example if at 117.4 and I push forward I see it jump to 118+, let go and then it drops down to 116+ then back to 117.4. Same is true for touches to slow down. I've tested with quantize and master tempo off and on.
Is there some unknown setting that is somehow compensating for variations?
As a test I put on two exact vinyl copies of a song and set the pitch on both tables to be exactly same where I could do the old school vinyl way of "Flanging" effect where a slight touch pull (pitch -) and forward push (pitch +) creates alters the depth of the flange. With vinyl with the near perfect sync I can ride the effect for several bars ~128 beats. Too much of a slight touch you will hear the double beat and lose the effect. Not altering the pitch of the turntables and load same MP3 version of the same exact track, line them up and perform same touch I hear the double beat but is as if the software is "snapping back" to get them back in sync, pushing or pulling I see the BPM counter compensate. Example if at 117.4 and I push forward I see it jump to 118+, let go and then it drops down to 116+ then back to 117.4. Same is true for touches to slow down. I've tested with quantize and master tempo off and on.
Is there some unknown setting that is somehow compensating for variations?
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