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Yet another workaround would be to make a clip for initialization purposes. Normal all the modulations (set to 100%) and fire it before saving. This is, of course, totally mickey mouse.

I'm dreading a response from Ableton that they actually had some kind of purpose for this change...

Unbelievably poor support on this issue from Ableton. Having multiple bugfixes go by with such a crucial defect still intact is a slap in the face.

The problem was not fixed in 8.02.

I am very disappointed with this. The ability to monitor an armed track (SW monitoring) while adjusting the MIDI track's delay time is a crucial MIDI recording technique. I'm very surprised to not see more alarm over the issue than i have.

from support

I see. I have filed this as a bug. Should (hopefully) be fixed in the next bugfix update. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,

Nico Starke
Ableton Technical Support

The workaround stated above is quite welcome.

Initially I was concerned about not being able to "adjust" new external parts around the beat.

BUT - it appears that the negative delay function actually does work when the track monitor is set to "off".

Meaning that it is still possible to tailor ...

[Taken from a Support email]

Hi Todd,

I can reproduce this here. Looks like the negative track delays are broken if sent to an external MIDI port. I will investigate.

Note that you usually don't have to use track delays to record your audio signals in sync. Although this will (normally) work to ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Krupa <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Todd Krupa <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:18:09 -0700
To: [email protected]
Subject: Delay Comp. / External MIDI instrument recording - LIVE 8. (#2)

>*Here is some follow up troubleshooting I've ...