Strange sound bug in Ultrabeat

[invisibleman]

I have a Korg padKontrol that I use as a midi controller, and for some reason ultrabeat is acting up. After I track the part I want it plays fine, but when I play it back the sound is all muddy and distorted. The only way that I have found to fix this is to just hit one of the pads to send a signal to it, and it seems to reset to its original sound. But after that it goes back to being muddy. Any ideas what this might be?

[David Nahmani]

I've never heard of such a problem with Ultrabeat. Can you attach the project that plays back all muddy and distorted to this thread? That way one of us can download it and listen, see if we can reproduce and or spot the issue. First control-click the project file in your Finder and choose "Compress..." so you get a .zip file, then attach it here.

[invisibleman]

Here it is!

Friday Spencer.zip

[invisibleman]

Any ideas of what might be causing this?

[Eric Cardenas]

You are using Varispeed with a setting of -32%?

Why don't you turn that off and set the tempo to 155.72 instead?

Use flex on your recorded Piano.

[invisibleman]

That seemed to do the trick! So was the problem just with varispeed?

[Eric Cardenas]

Yes it was.

-32% is a very optimistic amount. Logic will have to generate 1/3 of all audio. It will also smear all the transients as you've heard.