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Side note, all my plug-ins were up to date and I still has the issue. I'm actually really surprised there isn't a simpler solution inside of Ableton. Maybe someone knows more about this than I do or has a better solution within Ableton. Hope this helps, cheers.

Hey, I've had the same issue and found a fairly simple hack/work around. You need 2 computers (laptops), 1 with the Ableton project loaded for payback, and 1 with Ableton (or Audacity for slower machines) for recording the playback.
Simply start recording on the 2nd machine and then start playback ...