Use Hardware Reverb w/Live?

[MarkH]

I'm thinking of using Hardware reverb instead of software. I have a Delta 1010 with plenty of i/o, so my question is if I connect the outboard reverb to my Delta 1010 and assign Live's AUX SEND 1 to route via my external gear, where do I need to accomodate for the added latency due to routing to an outboard device and back into the computer? My input latency is 2ms and output latency 2ms (4ms total latency). I know Live has delay compensation but I believe this is only for VST/AU plugins. I assume I would need to manually modify the Track Delay in milliseconds?

Regards,
Mark

[Machinate]

I think you're right on the money. But you might get lucky and not need to change anything, imo 4ms isn't that easily heard on delays and reverbs.

[Winterpark]

just think of that extra latency as "pre-delay" for your reverb

[mike holiday]

i use a lexicon mpx 550 for reverb in live 5
set up via s/pdif

use a negitive setting on the send chanel's track delay

use a short hit and send it through DRY! (make a loop, input the hardware unit into live and turn that tracks monitor mode to "on")

now you can use track delay on the send chanel to sync the 2 sounds

and "ghost" clips to automate the "return" chanel from your hardware

easy as pie

you can do this with big latency settings mine ends up being -76 ms with 1024 sample buffer size


note: i cannot use s/pdif on my firewire 410 this way as there is a digital sync issue---so have to use the analog ins

but with my digi001 is flawless