Why does STRIIIINGS sound a bit delayed and off time?

How to set up a DAW track pre-delay

If you record STRIIIINGS to your metronome, quantize the MIDI afterwards and play it back, the strings might sound rather late - which is what real strings also do, because it takes time for the bow to start the string moving.

So what can you do?

As a compensation, film composers with high-end sample libraries use a negative MIDI-delay for the track. You can do this with STRIIIINGS as well, if you want them to sound tighter to super-tight. We recommend a negative track delay of -30 or even -40 ms.

If you load an instance of STRIIIINGS initially the sync mode is set to "Note". In Beat sync mode, phrase playback is automatically adjusted 30 ms early, to sound tight to the beat.

When playing live, you must ensure chord and phrase selection notes are sent before the phrase note you want to change has started playing - either with a negative track delay or playing the notes early and leaving them unquantized.

Have a look at this quick tutorial for how to set up a Track Pre-Delay in Ableton Live to make  STRIIIINGS sound tighter! Below the video, you'll find a step by step instruction with screenshots:

Ableton Live:

1. Click on the "D" () to open the track pre-delay menu

2. Now you can add a track pre-delay on this instance. We recommend to set it about -30ms to -40ms. 

Fl Studio 20: 

1. Go into your mixer and click on the "clock" () symbol to open the timing menu. (Make sure SE-STRIIIINGS is assigned to this channel)

2. Now you can add a track pre-delay on this instance. We recommend to set it about -30ms to -40ms. 

Logic Pro X:

1. Go into the "Region" section on the left of your instance and click on "more" to see the full menu and then click on "Delay".

2. Now you can select a delay between -30ms and -40ms on your instance. 

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