Recording audio - latency HELP

I.AM.AN.EXIT · Post by **I.AM.AN.EXIT** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:48 am

Hi,

I'm playing my guitar through an armed audio track, and throwing effects on it like distortion and simple delay. Now there is a latency on the guitar audio coming back out, so the delay sounds out of time to the rest of the loops that are playing. I do remember reading through how to resolve this in the Live 2 manual, which I've long since deleted. But I cannot for the life of me find it in the Live 5 manual. Can someone please tell me how to adjust my settings to conpensate for this latency?? I've tried the search on the forum for recording audio and latency, but there's thousands of topics. I know it's very simple... can someone point me in the right direction? It's critical I get this sorted asap thanks.

I.AM.AN.EXIT · Post by **I.AM.AN.EXIT** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:55 pm

anyone?

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:09 pm

Yes it's very simple. Switch track monitoring off. When you record the guitar, listen to it directly through the mixer or souncard, NOT through Live.

Once it's recorded, playback the clip and now you can mess with the plugins.

I.AM.AN.EXIT · Post by **I.AM.AN.EXIT** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:34 am

ah, sorry I shuld have explained, I'm working on a live show where I play guitar over live loops. SO, I want to run the guitar through a channel applying effects live.... Any ideas how to get rid of the delay?

I.AM.AN.EXIT · Post by **I.AM.AN.EXIT** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:41 am

Aha, I think I've found the answer on the FAQ here:

When I adjust the "Overall Latency" setting in Live, it does not seem to have any effect. Why?
The "Overall Latency" setting is directly coupled to the "Monitor through Live" option in the Preferences Audio tab. Please be sure that "Monitor through Live" is set to "no" for latency compensation to take affect. See next entry below for details of when to use this feature.
When do I need to adjust the "Overall Latency" setting in Live?
Suppose you are monitoring your voice or an instrument through an external device instead of Live (you have the "Monitor through Live" switch set to "no"). Now, as you sing or play along with the metronome or clips already in the Set, you are in fact playing along with "late" audio, because it takes some milliseconds for the audio to travel from the CPU to the audio outputs. This delay is referred to as "latency". Because you are hearing the audio from the program late, the audio you are recording into the program arrives late with respect to the program's internal timing. Live automatically compensates for this error by moving the recorded audio in song time so that you normally don't have to worry about any of this. If the recording you make sounds "untight" despite Live's effort to compensate for latency, then the audio hardware driver is probably the culprit: It is reporting an inaccurate latency value to Live. You can manually correct Live's latency assumption by adjusting the "Overall Latency" control in the Audio Preferences. The manual describes how to do this in the "Computer Audio Issues" chapter.

elektrovert · Post by **elektrovert** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:52 am

So did it work then?

I.AM.AN.EXIT · Post by **I.AM.AN.EXIT** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:16 pm

I've been working and gigging, so haven't sat down to try this, but will do tomorrow and i'll let you know.