PSA: Ableton recording changes when monitoring is on.

[Nigel Kersten]

FWIW I'm getting really solid timing now that I don't monitor through Live
at all.

No compensation adjustment needed.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I believe I got it working ok by monitoring direct with my motu mixer and
> then adjusting the compensation manually till things lined up. It does seem
> it is not exact and there may be some drift when zooming in on the
> waveforms but I'm accounting this to midi timing from external gear and me
> never paying this much attention to it. Plus you can't hear it.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Tony Scharf <tony.scharf at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> This is actually one of the reasons I stopped using live. I just couldn't
> get audio recorded to line up right without manually doing it after
> capture.  Switched to Reason, and...no more issues.
>
> It seems to be a case of 'hey, lets help the user out!' that just screws
> things up for them more.
>
> Tony
>
> ------------------------------
> From: nigel at explanatorygap.net
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 18:17:38 -0700
> Subject: PSA: Ableton recording changes when monitoring is on.
> To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
>
> 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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