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Halleluja! Mariana from Ableton Support helped me to fix it!! So happy to have this solved!

On a Mac, once you use recording in an app (like chrome voor google meet, or zoom, or Ableton) a microphone appears in the top bar. If you click on it, you can set the mic mode. For some reason in Ableton it ...

Recording works well in garage band or in wavepad audio editor. So That rules out USB problems, driver problems, Midi problems, Cable problems, monitor problems. Only in Ableton it appears to sort of gate the audio

Unfortunately: that doesn't work as you can see here
https://youtube.com/shorts/bLL9_acPx7E

Audio still comes in at very poor volume and quality.

Whatever I do, I can't get decent recordings from within Ableton. It works fine in other recording tools.

The audio is like 3 bit quality and super low volume. I've tested with multiple audio interfaces (focus rite 2i2 and mackie profx). Nothing works from within ableton. But it does work in my ...

Update. For me the fix was:

Old setup:
TR8S is connected via USB to PC
Akai APC40 mk2 midi controller is connected via USB to PC
In Ableton I setup both devices, I configure audio in to TR8S and audio out to my Focusrite Scarlett
Monitors connected to my Focusrite Scarlett

Result: FX, Reverb ...

I feel your pain.

If you are connected to USB, reverb, delay, master fx and auto fill in are ignored (not part of what travels down the USB cable to your PC). Probably accent is ignored as well.
Took me a while to figure that out.
Headset and mix out will have those effects in the output. But USB ...