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Deleted the track, played it back in, once again, just a quick staccato swipe of the strings on the 2 of every measure, and it seemed okay dry, but when I added effects it started to get off course, and by the end of the song (87 bars) it was off by almost a full beat. I erased the track. Recorded just 4 bars again. The first 4 were PERFECTLY in time. Selected the 4 bars with "snap" on checked the events and it was correctly the entire measure, no more or less, and pasted them. Once again, they were fine at first. I did not add effects and it stayed in time. However...

It sounds awful recording dry and not using effects, so as much as I hate it, I may have to plug up the old Line 6 and use the onboard effects to add the reverb tail and ton of high end EQ I want. I'll make it happen, but it's a drag that after finally listening to Scott and the others who steered me toward onboard and in the box mixing, now I have to go back to outboard analog stuff for this one track.

Now, as I am typing and thinking, I may have stumbled onto something. This is recorded in RB, but none if it IS from RB. The drums are nothing more than closed hat from my drum machine that was recorded while being driven by the MIDI clock in RB, and wood block played in manually from a synth. Then 2 tracks of Rhodes from 2 different patches. Then 4 layers of sax swells. Then vocals, then vocoder, then an imported fretless track and a BGV track. ALL lined up well until I played that guitar part in. So now I wonder, because there is no RB style involved for a timing "template", is this just drifting off because there is nothing holding it back?


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