PSA: Ableton recording changes when monitoring is on.

[Nigel Kersten]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Yea this is definitely a thing, that I never quite realized before either,
> is this just live? I never noticed it I don't think with say Logic? I
> always use my motu for monitoring now. Also I have been playing around with
> the driver error compensation, I preferred to adjust it myself. Live has a
> tutorial built in you can setup to test this - recording back into your
> interface.
>

The driver error compensation was the thing that finally convinced me
something was seriously wrong.

I ran through that process, and rather than my recording being behind the
source, it was *ahead* ! and was actually clipping off the beginning of the
source material rather than having a lag....

Once I realized it was the way I was monitoring, I flipped to off, and
there's almost no error now after running the test.

I don't remember this being a problem with Cubase VST/SX, but I was using
almost 100% software for a long time, so it wasn't really relevant, and
when I did used to record external gear, it was often straight into the
sampler.



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>
> On May 31, 2015, at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten <nigel at explanatorygap.net>
> wrote:
>
> I've been trying to understand why I get this weird lag in recording
> external gear back into Live that's being triggered by a MIDI start in
> Live, and finally found a forum post describing the problem.
>
> I don't think this is in the manual...
>
> https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?p=1507635#p1507635
>
> "Ableton records midi and audio differently depending on whether you
> choose monitoring "OFF" or "IN"/"AUTO" If set to "off" it will recording,
> it shifts events early according to buffer size latency because it assumes
> you are monitoring directly with no delay (like asio direct monitoring)"
>
>
> Thanks 0x80 from the Ableton forums... I'm basically going to stop
> monitoring in Live, flip my Scarlett interface to Playback only, and do all
> my monitoring via Alt 3/4 on the Mackie.
>
>
>
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