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The connections are simple enough. Set your Live master track to output to a couple of hardware outputs on your audio interface. Connect those outputs to the tape deck’s inputs. Connect the tape deck outputs to a stereo pair of inputs on the audio interface. Set a Live audio track to receive audio f...

Without commenting on the specific track you link to, there’s lots of ways vocals get processed. It helps massively if the singer is pretty much on pitch to start with, has a decent vocal tone and good timing and the singing is done into a good mic which matches their voice well in a good acoustic e...

There are many ways to do what you want. Assuming you have an iPad there’s Touchable, which provides a touch interface to a lot of Live’s functions. There are remote control applications which duplicate a Mac screen onto an iPad and let you run the Mac from the iPad. VNC is one, Duet another, and if...

It basically drops Live’s screen refresh rate. “15” is probably going to be a bit laggy, but I can’t tell the difference in terms of graphics response between 30 and not making the options.txt change. It made a huge difference to my 2014/15 Retina i7 MBP, which has Intel graphics, and makes hardly a...

Realtek chips aren’t intended for low-latency professional standard audio production. You might want to consider obtaining an audio interface which has low latency ASIO drivers supplied by its manufacturer. As an alternative you might be able to use ASIO4ALL to reduce latency - it works better for s...

As well as providing your audio interface device type etc. it might be worth downloading and running latencymon.exe (google will provide a link to the developer’s web site if you search for it). Audio buffer over-runs leading to popping and dropouts can happen on some PC configurations regardless of...

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... s#external might explain what’s happening.

“Budget friendly” can mean different things to different people... Various Focusrite, MOTU, and RME interfaces come to mind. RME aren’t the cheapest interfaces around but their drivers are excellent and RME tend to be very good at supporting no longer in production models with driver updates. Roland...

In general you need to create an audio track and drag the plugin from the browser pane into the plugins pane at the bottom of the track window. Then set the track’s input to whichever interface input your guitar is plugged into and track output to “master”. To hear the plugin working as you play set...

With a very few exceptions being used by someone who has millisecond-accurate timing setting two different devices to the same tempo will not be enough to keep them in sync. The internal clocks simply aren't that accurate, especially if one is a computer. Tiny errors will build up until the devices ...

That's THE trap with software: not deciding. But maybe there's something to do with this constant undecided state of mind? Back in the days when recording meant hiring a studio by the hour, paying for the tape used and for the engineer's time deciding whether what you'd recorded/mixed was "goo...

Pretty much the only way to get a MIDI device to keep time with another MIDI device - e.g. a synth and Live - is for there to be a master MIDI clock which everything is set to follow. You need to connect the Korg’s MIDI in to a MIDI out from the computer and then set this to be sent MIDI clock in Li...

By default Macs seem keen on putting all sorts of stuff on the iCloud “drive”, but that can be switched off by going into Settings and deselecting what you don’t want storing in the cloud. Telling Time Machine not to use the iCloud “drive” as a backup destination also helps prevent this behaviour. T...

I agree that hardware synths generally do have more presence in the mix for some reason. Even when the software emulation is made by the same manufacturer as the hardware synth there is a difference - e.g. Korg’s emulation of the MS-20mini is not as raw or full sounding as an actual MS-20mini. It ca...

I was thinking of the Behringer Model D, not the polyphonic version.