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so how exactly do you adjust your midi buffer on a mac when all you are using is midi over usb? again: there is no issue with this in bitwig using the same hardware / routing. ableton is doing some midi-voodoo that adds this delay and i can't figure out why / where. Dunno, I'm not a Mac user. Maybe...

aphex2000 wrote: ↑

Thu May 21, 2020 5:43 am

thanks, but is has nothing to do with the audio buffer, it's already at 256 and since it ONLY affects sequenced midi input and not live input it's something else

Your MIDI driver/interface has input and output buffers too. Or at least, mine does.

--jack

To the OP: are you sure the MIDI is early or is your audio late? What Audio interface are you using? And what are the buffer sizes for Audio and MIDI? I think you'd want small output buffers for each. aphex2000: I had a similar issue with MIDI data being delayed going into Ableton. The buffer size w...

I'm not sure I can really help, but you can try using MIDI-OX to see what's really coming out of the UR22 when you press a pedal on the MC7. Would be good to know. Also, I vaguely remember that Ableton doesn't handle receiving Program Change messages.

--jack

When you select ASIO and your audio interface from the Audio Preferences window, you won't get the Input and Output options. When you use an external audio interface, you need to connect your speakers/headphones to the audio interface. You can't use the Windows speakers and the audio interface. --jack

I see this has been discussed before (no surprise), but I didn't find it earlier when I searched.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=198644

--jack

I have Live 9.5 Standard, running on a Windows 8.1 laptop. Sometimes I forget to power on/plug-in the audio interface before I start Live. When I do this, I get a dialog that tells me that there is no audio device. It would be great to have an option to exit Live at this point without changing the a...

I have been using an ActitioN MIDI foot controller for a year or so. There are a few different versions. I have the 4-button USB version and it works well for me and was fairly inexpensive at around $80 IIRC.

https://www.actition.co.uk/

--jack

I don't have any direct experience with the X32 (I have an X32 Rack, but don't interface it with Ableton), but I have read in other forums about users having issues with audio interfaces and USB 3.0 ports when the audio device is USB 2.0 compatible. If you are using a USB 3.0 port on your laptop, ma...

Thank you! Sorry I missed this post! Do you use a trigger to time stretch tempo? You know, if the tempo varies or you WANT to change the tempo? How does that work exactly? Sorry, it's been a while. Can you just have a trigger off to the side and hit it until it locks into tempo, or do you have to h...

I use Live in a live band setting. I am a bass player and I sometimes play in a Rush cover/tribute type band. I have a Roland PK-5A controller that I trigger with my feet that I interface to Ableton and a Roland Juno-G synth. Sometimes I use the PK-5A to play notes, sometimes I trigger samples, etc....

Problem Description I was trying to use a MIDI message to toggle the SOLO switch on the audio tracks that I have configured in a Live Set. That seemed to work the first time I sent the MIDI message, ie, the SOLO switch for the desired track would engage. However, I ran into the problem that when tr...

In ClyphX/ClyphX Pro, you'd use X-Controls for this, which add no latency whatsoever (unlike X-Clips). Also, unlike MIDI mapping, using X-Controls would make this mapping available in any set you opened as opposed to it only being available in sets that contain the MIDI mapping. I figured that ther...

S4racen wrote:ClyphX had up to 100ms delay from action to event, ClyphX Pro will reduce this to a maximum of 20ms...

Cheers
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Ever since adding ClyphX it seems that Ableton is slower in general. Everything from startup to changing Live Sets, etc. I removed it and I'm happy again.

--jack

Thank you! This approach works great. Thanks for the reply and the screen shot was very helpful!

With your approach I no longer get the latency between pressing the key and launching the clip like I did with ClyphX. Now it works exactly like I want.

Thanks Pitch Black!

--jack