Gater not in time with the beat?

[dodge]

I could have sworn the gater was in time with the music? Mine isn't any more. am I tripping or was gater never in sync with the beat?

[Zac Kyoti]

If it's not in time to something, it just means it's following a different tempo source. Make sure your grids are spot on, that the deck is either synced to the master clock or a master deck, or is the master deck, and it'll always be on time.

[dodge]

Sorry, my bad. I was mixing with weird timing drums on some reggae dancehall music.

Thanks tho

[Zac Kyoti]

LoL! Yeah, gating really syncopated sparse drums is kinda iffy sometimes.

[BradCee]

if the beatgrid is spot on it should be fine though?

[Zac Kyoti]

Yeah, it's just that if there's a lot of space between hits, sometimes the gater only sounds like it's half working, since it's just gating silence.

[Abyrne7]

I wish there was a way to modify chained FX, so that I could make the white noise on the gater less extreme! Annoys the hell out of me.

[BradCee]

just work with it, adds to percussive elements of mix

[Abyrne7]

sometimes it works well, other times I would just like something with less white noise, for vocals and stuff.

[BradCee]

you could use the gater in advanced? or have you got it chained with phaser and lfo filter for insta-wobble basslines?