Arpeggios - why don't they playback from 1st beat of 1st bar ?!

Using an AU plugin synth in Logic 8 (say FM8 or Gladiator) with an arpeggio preset - why when i record into the 1st 4 bars of a song by holding a single note down and then quanitise it so it should start playing on EXACTLY beat 1 of bar 1 - do i hear NOTHING until the 4 bar region loops round to the beginning!!?
(i'm talking about arpeggio patches where holding a single note plays the arpeggio - so what i end up recording is just 4 bars of a sustained note)

This is so bizarre and aggravating - i always have to nudge arpeggios slightly to the right to hear them from the start of a song - please someone, is there a way of fixing this!??

G5 2.3 Dual, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 26, 2009 2:35 PM

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Florence Author

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Jun 1, 2009 1:42 PM in response to tobacco_slammers

Definitely was 1.1.1.1

But you know what - i think it's just certain patches with certain plugins - i just tested again and the sequencey style patches in the Logic ES2 synth playback fine from 1.1.1.1 - it's more complex patches in NI FM8 or Massive that seem to flummox Logic - and to get playback from 1.1.1.1 you have to nudge the note quite a few frames to the right

Jun 2, 2009 12:00 AM in response to Florence

That's a strange one then. There isn't a gate involved in these setups that don't work? It sounds possible that a gate may be stopping the initial sound from passing and causing silence. That still wouldn't explain why it would work next time round though. Is it possible that the attack time of the amp envelope is too slow? Just trying to rule things out here.

Other than that it could be some setting within the instrument/s.

Can you give me the name of a logic preset that your having problems with so I can check it out on my computer to see if this happens?

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Arpeggios - why don't they playback from 1st beat of 1st bar ?!