If the decks are sync locked, then it’s actually Deck B attempting to phase sync to Deck A after you’ve pressed the CUE button. You’ll see the effect in more detail if you activate scratch on the master deck, then scratch with a jogwheel. You’ll see the synced deck nudging backwards and forwards. I think this is what’s happening, rather than it just being an audio glitch.
The best thing to do is to deactivate sync on B before you press CUE on A, and see if it still does it.
Like I suspected it was “human error”, I really need to stop pressing CUE when I finish the track and actually just pause it .
If SYNC is active, I press cue, glitch. I don’t like to keep pressing sync on and off, I just leave it on for the whole set now that I am entering the 4 deck madness.
The exact same thing happens to me; threw me for a while until I realised it was a symptom of Track B beatsyncing with Track A while A is still Tempo Master. A possible workaround for 2-deck setups, is to set Tempo Master to be the other deck when the channel fader is down; that way, when you bring down the fader on deck B it swaps master to Deck A, and then you can stop the deck using the cue button.
Tempo Sync will prevent this issue from happening. If you’re mixing internally you can also use the “Only On Air Deck can be Tempo Master” option in Transport settings which will switch the Master deck automatically once the volume fader is down.
Tempo sync lets you adjust the phase of the tracks once you start playback. It is less rigid and restrictive, which is why you don’t get the “glitch” when you press CUE as it doesn’t try to perfectly sync every beat.
Normal Sync “locks” the tracks together completely.
Phase sync alone syncs the tracks immediately, but if the tempos are not correct they will drift apart.
Tempo sync alone matches the BPMs, but doesn’t change the phase of the track.
One trick is to combine phase and tempo sync into one button, which allows a quick sync without locking the tracks, which is handy in a lot of situations
You could sync everything to the master clock, that’s how Richie Hawtin does it or at least how he did it in the past, but I don’t see a reason to change that.
There are separate phase sync and tempo sync commands in the MIDI editor, but under the normal options the buttons are just phase sync and tempo sync. I’ve never found these to work properly though, I think they only control what happens when you click the sync button, and are separate from pressing the button on a MIDI controller.
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