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Logic's synced modulation is unreliable


Twister

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Every time I use modulation plug-ins in synced mode in my projects, sooner or later they fail to sync with rest of the project. I have noticed this with Tremolo plug-in that I often use to provide constant and synced side-chain or gating effects. I've also encountered similar issues with third party plug-ins with synchronizable effect units, such as D16's Sigmund and Reveal Sound's Spire. Now it's hard to tell whether all of those bugs are unrelated, or do some of them originate from a common source located somewhere in Logic's synchronization API. I haven't found a reliable way of reproducing this issue other than simply waiting for the synchronization to fail at some point. I often need to bounce my project multiple times because it can occur offline as well. 

 

Here's an example from a project I was working on. The handclap with the long reverb is supposed to have a pumping sidechain effect. It's an EXS24 sampler followed by Waves TrueVerb and Logic's Tremolo plug-ins. No automation has been written on that track. Common sense tells me that it should sound exactly the same every time, but unfortunately this is not the case. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvsihc9oiabfrdk/mod_out_of_sync.wav?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7ljnoldhigixjm/mod_in_sync.wav?dl=0

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