When I am playing along with some songs on the App, I will play the chord when the App tells me I should strum the chord but it sounds like it is out of sync with the song and rhythm of the song. I am playing along with the songs on an iPad that I am running through my amp.
Is this normal?
Is this just a glitch with the App?
Am I doing something wrong?
Any insite or help would be greatly appreciated!
Just tagging the app developers @MusopiaApps so they can look into this. Hope it gets solved!
Hi @WATeddy,
How is your amp connected to your iPad? Through Bluetooth or directly via an AUX cable?
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Wild guess: are you connecting via Bluetooth? BT audio has significant delay and it’s enough to throw you off if you’re trying to look for cues from the app while you play.
If you can, try a wired connection form the iPad. If not, you may have to just learn to live with it - what I used to do was look at the next chord in the app, but make the change based entirely on the feel for the rhythm, not relying on the app for the cue to change. In the long run that’s what you want to learn to do anyway, so it’s good practice.
@MusopiaApps an interesting “advanced” setting for the app could be a “BT delay compensation” setting. How to set it may be tricky, but one option that comes to mind is to play a beat and ask the user to tap the screen on the beat, then you can estimate the delay that should compensate for the BT stack.
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heckler is right. I do the exact same. I only look at the app to see what chord to change to in the next bar but in between, I close my eyes so that I’m fully focussed on what I’m listening to and what sounds I’m producing. When I first started playing to a metronome (Justin’s other app), I’d look at the phone for visual reinforcement but as I improved and got a better feel for it, I found that I needed only my ears.
That’s quite a good suggestion for Musopia to mitigate the problem of bluetooth delay but in the long run, I think it’s better for users to follow heckler’s advice of learning to not be reliant on the visual cues.