crossposting this from the RME forum.
I'm trying to set up a non complicated recording workspace for our singer.
She will be using the Fireface UC on a 21" 3.33 Ghz iMac Intel Core 2 Duo and recording with Ableton Live on Mac OS X 10.6.8 in either a stereo PZM microphone or a M/S setup, monitoring in the same room as she records in.
Voice, Vibraphones and guitar (not at the same time).
I have run into a slight problem though.
How could I setup the Fireface and Ableton so she has no hassle with monitoring/playback of the recorded tracks?
The way I see it is that she would be either monitoring her direct signal via the Fireface UC and the headphones out or via software monitoring in Ableton Live.
But there are two problems here:
Setting up the Fireface UC as her monitor, leaves her with the microphone signal during playback of her recorded tracks and wouldn't be very practical considering the danger of feedback during playback of the recorded tracks.
If I set it up so that there is no monitoring the audio input of channels 1 and 2 from the Fireface via chanel 7/8 out, I have to activate Ableton Lives Software monitoring, which introduces latency (and crackle when setting the buffer really low to get somewhere close to acceptable latency values) to which she can't sing comfortably.
Any ideas or hints how to set this up, so she has minimal hassle with it and can focus on recording her material?
Could this be solved by clever use of MCP?
Thank you,
dualmono