Ableton Forum

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Ableton. I'm using Live v8 with a new 2.93Ghz MacBook Pro and an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra.

Recording into Ableton with my virus keyboard through USB work fine, no latency at all when playing. However, when I'm recording a guitar, vocals or any other live instrument in through the Fast Track Ultra I get severe delay. If i take the buffer size down from 512 it's gets better but the quality sounds bad. Are there any other options/settings that I can be adjusting?

I've tested recording into Garage Band with the same set up (guitar into Fast Track Ultra) and it's perfect, so it's not that.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Fletch.

Enable Asio direct monitoring, and also high performance mode (if your mac will allow it) inside the m-audio control panel..

Good luck!

AudioRuso wrote:Enable Asio direct monitoring, and also high performance mode (if your mac will allow it) inside the m-audio control panel..

Good luck!

pretty sure those are windows only things

there should be an internal routing for direct monitoring in your sound card prefs

also you can correct recording latency with the driver error compensation

I suffer latency problems when recording in with a fast track pro, but only in Ableton. When I record mixes into sound forge it is fine. Any ideas???????

Undercover Soul wrote:I suffer latency problems when recording in with a fast track pro, but only in Ableton. When I record mixes into sound forge it is fine. Any ideas???????

recording latency or monitoring latency

different solutions for both

recording = driver error compensation

monitoring = direct monitoring inside your fast track

That's exactly the same here - Garage Band is fine, Ableton has delay. I've adjusted what I can in Ableton but still it has latency.

Can you access the Pref's dialog in the M-Audio control panel? Mine's always ghosted.

Live comes with a built-in lesson that walks you through the process of adjusting it to reduce latency. The settings you'll change, when going thru the lesson, depend on which audio interface you're using. Different settings for different devices.

Example: I go through that lesson with my PreSonus Firebox attached. The settings I eventually put into Live are different than they were when I had the TASCAM audio interface attached. If I'm only using the MacBook's built-in audio, I go through the lesson again, and come up with different settings, again.

Hope this helps,

--moonie

Do you have to rerun the lesson when you switch interfaces or do you simply make a note of them and change them?

kingb wrote:Do you have to rerun the lesson when you switch interfaces or do you simply make a note of them and change them?

not sure about driver error compensation

but i do know that the buffer adjust does save for each interface