[Bill Babcock]

I agree that in that situation this makes sense – but what about a simple 4/4 song all the way through?

So in the screenshot crop I have attached, you can see a simple setup. bpm 120, playhead set to measure 10 (which has a marker on it as well for easy reference).

I’ve selected a groove that is 8 measures in length.

I used the grab program’s times capture to get this. You can see from Logic’s playhead position that this is just about to measure 12 when the snap was taken. (I don’t know why the song track measure marker is still at 10 – that is likely a poor interaction with grab because it matches the measure marker in logic and is not the problem).

 

Now, look at the selected grooves progress indicator: you can see that it is almost at half way – e.g.: almost on measure 4  of the 8 measure groove. That places it 2 measures ahead of the DAW.

Now, if I start on measure 9 vs 10, it lines up properly. In other words, if the measure in the DAW falls on a logical multiple of the number of measures in the groove (e.g.: we start on measure one – the next start of an 8 measure block is measure 9), it works. If it does not, then it’s always offset and incorrect.

 

So there’s definitely something wrong there.

[Bill Babcock]

As a follow on, if I use the song track editor and enter in all the time sig changes, I can align the grooves if I drag them to the song track so I suppose that’s a work around.

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