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The guitarist just left the band after some recordeing sessions, use ing live 5, 2. and emu 1616m. he claims to have some output latency, while recordeing, and the results can also be heard! not very tight recordeing. Since I dont really know whats wrong, and the basplayer dosent seem to have the problem, and I never really figured out about the buffer settings and so on, he desided to leave us amatures....well I think we are better of without anyway he claims that live sucks for pro recordeing! what do I know!
Dont know if this really an emu question og a ableton question, but does anyone know?
I set the asio buffer latency setting to 4ms... this is the lowest I can go, with out pops and clicks.
This is in ableton live resulteing in the overall latency parameter in 4,13 + 4,13 + 000(ADJUSTABLE)`= 8,25 MS. which he claims is far too much!
I tryed to adjust the ooo parameter and the asio buffer, so that the end result is 0 ms, but that just made things really ugly!
Where can find the nessesery information`? Or does anyone knows`?
Thanks I like to be able to keep my next guitarist

I think there are two issues involved:

1. Recording latency - how long it takes LIVE to 'hear' your guitar player's signal.
2. Monitoring latency - how long it takes for your guitar player to 'hear' his own signal.

Here is how I dealt with the issues.

RECORDING LATENCY

I believe one of the LIVE tutorials included with the program is called LATENCY TUTORIAL. This is very helpful.

This will show you how to configure your buffer / compensation settings to correct for recording latency. This means LIVE will play back your guitar player's performance exactly where he played it.

MONITORING LATENCY

I think the best way to deal with this is to monitor your guitar player's signal BEFORE it goes to the computer. This may involve splitting your guitar player's signal and using a small external mixer so you can listen to your guitar player's signal BEFORE the computer and still hear the output from LIVE.

If you've set your buffer settings correctly, then it should 'feel' good to the guitar player while playing, and should sound identical on playback.

Just make sure you set the monitor button to OFF on the guitar track while recording, or you'll hear your guitar player 'twice'.

If the rhythm still isn't tight, then start looking for another guitar player...

Hope that helps some. Good luck.