- Checked with Live 8.0.4 and the newest beta (Live 8.0.5b6) on a Macbook with OS 10.5.7 -
To reproduce create a live set with two tracks and a return track.
Create - for example - a simpler on track 1 with a short sound. Create a midi clip to trigger this sound.
Monitoring off this track is auto and the track is not armed.
Latency Compensation must turned on.
Tweak the fx send for the simpler track to 100 percent (0 dB)
Insert an Ableton "External Audio Effect" plug-in into the return track.
Dry/Wet must be 100 percent wet.
Route the ins and outs of the plug-in to an External (bypassed) Effect of your choice -or directly from an output to an input of your audio interface, so that you can hear the sound of the simpler back thru the external effect.
Ideally there is no flanging to hear between the original and the returned sound (depending on a correct Driver Error Compensation and the external Effect unit).
Now change the Track Delay from the second (unused) track to e.g. -200 milliseconds.
Now you will hear a delay from the original to the returned sound of 200 milliseconds.
The same occurs with VST or Audio Unit Plug-Ins (the appearing delay is depending on the buffer size for plug-ins in the cpu preference tab and the number of plug-ins in this track) or with Ableton Plug-Ins with a lookahead value.
In Live 7 this is working like a charm (no problems).
This makes it very hard to use my External Reverb Unit as a main reverb within Live 8.
Hope this will be fixed soon.
Regards, p.e.
