Traktor & Ableton Sync Issue!

Hi,

I am using ableton and traktor together to perform. I have them synced but have 1 issue with it.

Im aware you must press the sync button on traktor at the time of bar 1 from music playing on ableton. This will enable ablteon to launch a clip at the correct time (in terms of bars) to what is playing in traktor.



My issue is....for some unknown reason at random time the sync decides to go out. they are still synced in terms of bpm but the bars are different. for example, traktor is playing, i launch a clip from ableton to start on bar 1 of the traktor song but it doesn't. it will come in on a random bar so sounds terrible.

Obviously in a performance situation i cant keep stopping to re-adjust the sync bar by repress the Sync button within traktor.



Hope this makes sense.



Any help appreciated



Owen

 

1) In Traktor’s Master Clock panel, turn on the Tick button. Also turn on the Cue button for Deck A. This will make it so you can hear a metronome (click) sound representing Traktor’s master clock.



2) With the Play button enabled in Traktor’s Master Clock panel, Click on the SYNC button in Traktor’s Master Clock to make sure its sending MIDI clock.

3) In Ableton, turn on the Metronome by clicking on the metronome button in the Master Clock section. Now you should have an Audible Metronome playing in both programs.



4) The next thing you are going to do is adjust the MIDI Clock Sync Delay in Ableton, so that the metronomes in both programs are playing perfectly in Sync. To do this, go to the Ableton Preferences – MIDI / SYNC. Where says “Input – Traktor Virtual Output” in the MIDI Ports section, click on the little arrow to the left of “INPUT” to open up the advanced MIDI clock preferences.



5) We are now going to beatmatch the two metronomes by adjusting the MIDI Clock Sync Delay bar. We can just click on this Bar and drag it up and down until both Metronomes are playing perfectly in sync.

 

I have spent many hours with this issue and have to confirm that this just keeps happening and needs to be readjusted every now and then. I cannot get the metronoms to stay perfectly synced over a longer period of time (10+ min)

 

I also have massive problems with syncing from Ableton (M-Audio Keystation 88es midi out) to TRAKTOR (S4 midi in) on Mac.