Can I get zero hardware latency with Ableton?

jerrycherry · Post by **jerrycherry** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:41 pm

Hi

I have a M-audio Firewire Audiophile and want someone help me to setup it for zero hardware latency with Ableton Live.I have active monitor speakers- Tapco S5.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:23 pm

There is no such thing as zero latency hardware.

chelfyn · Post by **chelfyn** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:17 pm

You don't even get zero latency with hardware. Modern soundcards will get down to the same latency levels as any modern digital synth, as long as you're running the right drivers.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:46 pm

try the asio4all driver (http://www.asio4all.com), might get better latency than with the bog standard maudio stuff. it's free so well worth a shot.

jerrycherry · Post by **jerrycherry** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:10 pm

I read this in the manual of my audio interface "You also get zero-latency hardware direct monitoring, ultra-low latency ASIO software direct monitoring"

Is that possible or fake?

I want to use that wich I read in the manual:

"ASIO Direct Monitoring – Many applications that support ASIO 2.0 also support ASIO
Direct Monitoring. In ASIO direct monitoring mode, your audio application sends the
input signal directly back to the FireWire Audiophile’s outputs, without passing through
the application itself. The advantage is that there is no latency from passing through your
audio software."

Now I have a Input latency 7ms and Output latency also 7 ms overall latency 14 ms.How I can setup Ableton only for Input latency and I want to send output audio signal directly to my outputs of the sound card.So I want to save the adding of output latency.

djsemuta · Post by **djsemuta** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:34 pm

So what it's saying is that your soundcard will pass the input directly to the output. In order to take advantage of this, I usually set the monitoring option in the ableton channel/track to "off", and either somewhere on your actual piece of hardware, or in the software applet for it, there is an option to mix the input signal with the output signal which gets you "direct" monitoring.

That is, you can hear your input signal directly mixed with the output signal, thereby bypassing the issue of sending audio through through the computer.

The downside is that you cannot monitor your signal with fx etc. generated within ableton.

This is how I monitor on my fw1884 and any other sound card where I'm recording external audio.