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William wrote:So you're a beta tester?

Yes. I just got in the beta and this was the first thing I checked.

This will not go well on the gearslutz live 9 thread....

Well that's really disappointing.

Wow, how could they not have addressed this? So, someone managing the Live 9 project looked at this and said... ehhh, timing isn't really all that important in a DAW, screw all of these complainers who want accurate timing, and competitors who offer accurate timing.

It's obvious why they have made the forum so incredibly difficult to find...

There's still some major issues with live.



I really thought they would have sorted this shit out.

Ableton need to comment on this ASAP, is it a beta bug or will Live 9 be incapable of keeping time when racks are used.

I want to know why my other DAW can keep time no matter what I do, and Live can- is this something in he structure of Live that just can't be fixed?

It won't (and hasn't ) stop me using and enjoying live, it will (and does) affect how I use it.

A clear statement will let users know if Live is for them (rather than complaining about it afterwards) but there are certainly a lot of people on kvr and gearslutz who don't use Live for the PDC issues and would have used Live 9 if it was fixed.

Damn. I was hoping this would be fixed too.

CooCooCaCha wrote:

William wrote:So you're a beta tester?

Yes. I just got in the beta and this was the first thing I checked.

Hang on, I thought this was a problem with automation and tempo synced effects? Isn't your example simple effect delay compensation, which does work ( I thought)
What am I missing?

Edit: oh, yeah, sorry, I'm being particularly stupid today.

Thanks Ableton,

-Hiking up the upgrade price $100 last minute.
-Not fixing PDC.

Thanks for making it easy for me to decide not to upgrade...

mrhairy wrote:Thanks Ableton,

-Hiking up the upgrade price $100 last minute.
-Not fixing PDC.

Thanks for making it easy for me to decide not to upgrade...

I agree with the sentiment, but you've a funny definition of last minute. They've only just announced it.

I was really hoping this PDC would be fixed, so I could actually use Live as my main DAW. It will probably never be fixed since it hasn't yet by version 9. No pdc or snap to grid make automating plugins a real pain in the ass.

Can someone explain what exactly the issue with PDC that people are running into is?

I've been using Live for the better part of 3 years and have not run into any issues with plugin timings

Please...I too would appreciate an explanation of this PDC problem and how I can recreate it. As I understand it, if I don't use too many external plug-ins I'm fine? As in, stacking Live effects has no effect on delay?

Basically Live's PDC on VST plugins only compensates the audio..not the midi , which causes automation to be out of sync when you start adding more plugins before or after an automated plugin. Most other DAWs will compensate this properly, but Ableton has always had this problem.

soultwist wrote:Please...I too would appreciate an explanation of this PDC problem and how I can recreate it. As I understand it, if I don't use too many external plug-ins I'm fine? As in, stacking Live effects has no effect on delay?

I'd recommend checking out the post I made on page 3 with the picture. That should hopefully explain things.


Also
I tested automation delay compensation and it seems that is not fixed either.