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Kontrol S49 Mk3 new arpeggiator jitter

Brian Collins
Brian Collins Member Posts: 6 Newcomer
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Have I missed a setting here?

If I turn on the arpeggiator and just hold down a chord, it doesn't play at all regularly - there is very pronounced timing jitter

Screenshot 2025-04-05 112450.png

Any ideas? Is anyone else seeing this? Is it a support issue (bug?)?

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  • Uwe303
    Uwe303 Moderator Posts: 4,479 mod
    edited April 5

    Hello,

    have you one track loaded with kk and just select it once, then the keyboard gets the correct BPM, I will also test this with cubase and see if I have the same issue, of course quantization should be all off within cubase but I guess you have that already off.

  • Brian Collins
    Brian Collins Member Posts: 6 Newcomer

    Thanks for looking at this. The BPM is generally correct. But it looks like the Arp is applying some very sloppy humanization to the start time and duration of notes. This is what I hear if I have a single piano instrument track and hold down a chord with Arp turned on.

    I set S1 to record in order to get the screenshot evidence. The Midi notes displayed correspond to what I hear. I can post a video recording of the S49 if that helps.

  • Uwe303
    Uwe303 Moderator Posts: 4,479 mod

    No need for a video it's absolutely evident in the picture. I used it with cubase and it sounded perfect for my ears but I just used single notes, if I'm later back I will make a recording too, with chord arpeggios and see what's going on.

  • Brian Collins
    Brian Collins Member Posts: 6 Newcomer

    Thanks again. I also get it with a single note, with both Scale (Chord Mode) and Arp turned on. In both Scale and Arp I pressed the Shift/Reset first. The overall tempo follows the value set on the S49, but the jitter occurs at all values.

  • Brian Collins
    Brian Collins Member Posts: 6 Newcomer

    And to simplify things, I closed Studio One and ran Kontakt8 stand-alone. And I still get the same jitter. This is NI hardware playing only NI software.

  • Brian Collins
    Brian Collins Member Posts: 6 Newcomer

    I've fixed it!!

    For completeness I tried a firmware reset (Settings/General/Reset). And when I re-enable Arp (with and without Scale) the notes are now all tightly quantized as expected.

    That was a very strange (and worrying) failure mode - everything else worked fine. I wonder if the developers have added some internal support for a forthcoming Humanize option and it was accidentally left on by the firmware upgrade to 1.9.4?

    So thanks again for trying this.

  • Uwe303
    Uwe303 Moderator Posts: 4,479 mod

    Cool that you have fixed it yourself, on my side everything is working without a reset but that's a good advice for others with similar problems - thx for figuring out.

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