rikyray,
I wanted to ba able to synth mpc and live w/o need of mixer. I bought an RME exactly to be able to use hardware w/o external mixer and mix into the computer.(I have a very big one which is a mess to lug around for gig and it's ridicolous to be onstage with 24 channel mixer when you need

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So I thought I could have done it playing with delay compensation/driver compensation in order to compensate the latency of the computer.
My live states input latency 5.33 ms and output latency 5.33 ms, so I thought I had to "anticipate" live by 10.66 ms but the test I did with a simple 4/4 kick loop both in live and mpc didn't give any good result, the two kick just won't be *exactly* in snyc, always a bit shifted.
I tried both track delay and midi delay, it was only today I eventually understood, thanks to m:o that I have to use midi delay, but it didn't work too.
That's why now in studio I have everything connected to the mixer, both live and mpc, and the monitors are plugged into the mixer.
Im gonna buy a shitty el cheapo behringer mixer even if I truly hate the brand but with 100 CHF i can have 4 mono and 2 stereo channels which is enough for my live gigs.
I can live with a bit of loss of sound quality onstage, club PAs are anyway far from audiophile quality.