How do I add effects to real-live audio?

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Dave Marks
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How do I add effects to real-live audio?

Post by Dave Marks » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:47 pm

That's the question. I set my Track to "Live-In", and I can hear what's playing into this Track no problem. If I drop an effect into this channel, the audio is not "effected". What am I doing wrong. Is it possible to have effects affect real-live audio. I've tried using the "Send" channels as well-- didn't work.

Help!

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Post by quandry » Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:36 pm

options>preferences>audio>monitoring through Live>yes

This should route your audio through all of Live's (and vst) effects to the master out. Assuming the master out is correctly hooked up to your desired sound source (routed there in the same audio menu), you should get sound. Check your master fader as well. This monitoring through lives comes at the price of double the latency, as the audio has to go into Live and back out. depending on your soundcard that may or may not matter.

Good Luck


ryan

Dave Marks
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That did it!!!

Post by Dave Marks » Tue Apr 15, 2003 1:43 am

That worked.

Thanks Ryan! This has bothered me for quite a while.

And I have seen no real problem with Latency (I'm using a Echo Gina 24/96 card).

Thanks again! :D

Dave

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