Hi!
I just ran my first rehearsals for a tour with Ableset. Running a redundancy rig, 2 M3 Macbook Airs, Playaudio 1U, and an Ipad 10th gen synced over local Ablenet ethernet switcher. Everything has been working great except I’m having a concerning number of failovers when simply trying to navigate a set. Its almost as navigating to a different section catches the 1u by surprise sometimes? I believe its mostly indicative of iPad use but can’t say for sure if its exclusive to it. Don’t have the rig with me now to troubleshoot at the moment but will attempt to more later this week. I have LifeSine on a return to avoid muting failovers, I’ve set my failover timeout to about 12 ms to avoid sample rate latency. Any other ideas of what may be happening here and how I can avoid it switching to B computer so much? Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hey @kbwallace, thank you for reporting this issue – that shouldn’t happen normally.
When you try to reproduce this behavior, does it also occur when you move the playhead by clicking different song locators in Live’s arrangement view? Does it occur more often when jumping to any specific songs, or does it seem to be random?
An easy workaround would be to increase the failover timeout on your PlayAUDIO1U, but I’m sure there’s a fix to avoid having to do that.
I’m looking forward to your further findings!
Hi Leo! I’ve finally gotten a chance to troubleshoot. It appears that the behavior it is actually quite consistent. Even without the iPad I’m realizing, when jumping songs quickly, it fails over. I moved the failover time to 30ms and it stopped the issue completely. Am I wrong to think this is an unnecessarily long time to set? I’m running new M3 Macbook Airs if that’s helpful.
What is a reasonable range for a failover time in your opinion. Perhaps thats fine and I’m making something out of nothing haha
Hey @kbwallace, I’d say while failover times under 10ms are best, anything between 10 and 50 milliseconds is still somewhat acceptable. You could try this yourself by pausing playback on your A machine and listening to the dropout while your PlayAUDIO1U switches to your B machine.
Great suggestion! Thanks for always being so responsive. Appreciate it Leo.