Delay on Audio Recording
Delay on Audio Recording
For the past few days I've been recording on ableton with my mic and guitar and it's been fine. All of a sudden there's a delay on anything played through my soundcard. The delay only seems to be in Ableton. I can't see anything I've changed but might've done it by accident. Does anyone know what might be the problem. Really appreciate the help because I can't do anything with this silly delay.
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I don't think I've changed the latency settings. The delay is on recording. I turned the monitoring off and there's no delay but obviously I can't hear myself anymore. I suspect it does have to do with the latency settings. Is there any tips on how to set the latency settings well? Thanks for the reply
try to go into your soundcard settings and change the latency, and then change the latency back to where u had it, it might fix it. I get that sometimes, and its like it resets the soundcard's asio. worth a try.
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- do your recording with direct monitoring (listen to the live stuff before it hits Live and mute those same signals to keep them coming out of Live.)
- measure the latency
-- get any loop
-- connect an input to an output on your sound card
-- play the loop out of Live and record it on the input
-- in clip view for the recording zoom all the way in, at the bottom of the screen is time in milliseconds
-- how delayed is the signal? call the 'x'.
at the bottom of each track is the track delay, if you don't see it, turn on the bottom most circular button at the lower right side of the Live window. you need to turn on track delay compensation in the options menu (not in the preferences.)
enter '-x' into that box.
now when you record, listen to the direct monitor, then when you playback that recording play it back at -x track delay. you can also move the start flag for the recording x milliseconds ahead.
if you want it really tight.
- play back the recorded clip with the utility plug in on it with the phz-r and phz-l buttons pressed, that inverts the signal
- play the original loop at the exact same time.
- click on the track delay button and use your keyboard up/down arrows to bump the delay around. at the point where the output is the quietest is where the delay is closest because the signals are identical, but one is inverted. signal + -signal = 0
recording with -x in the track delay puts the recording -2x off, so don't do that.
hope that helps, at least you can control it.
- measure the latency
-- get any loop
-- connect an input to an output on your sound card
-- play the loop out of Live and record it on the input
-- in clip view for the recording zoom all the way in, at the bottom of the screen is time in milliseconds
-- how delayed is the signal? call the 'x'.
at the bottom of each track is the track delay, if you don't see it, turn on the bottom most circular button at the lower right side of the Live window. you need to turn on track delay compensation in the options menu (not in the preferences.)
enter '-x' into that box.
now when you record, listen to the direct monitor, then when you playback that recording play it back at -x track delay. you can also move the start flag for the recording x milliseconds ahead.
if you want it really tight.
- play back the recorded clip with the utility plug in on it with the phz-r and phz-l buttons pressed, that inverts the signal
- play the original loop at the exact same time.
- click on the track delay button and use your keyboard up/down arrows to bump the delay around. at the point where the output is the quietest is where the delay is closest because the signals are identical, but one is inverted. signal + -signal = 0
recording with -x in the track delay puts the recording -2x off, so don't do that.
hope that helps, at least you can control it.
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