Ableton Forum

(Live 3.0 User here, Mac OS X)

I'm a breakbeat & softsynth guy, so I've never tried recording with Live. I'm a bit confused.

I've read the manual, but I can't get my sounds synced. (I'm plugging a Pod XT Live through USB into Live. I activate the click track, mute the channel, play my incredibly awesome guitar lick, but my notes are still all late. And no, it's not me. Super-accurate tapping on the pickups along with the metronome click track, and it's still late)

There's all kinds of places to set latencies, offsets, etc. There's the main audio preference screen - you can add extra latency to the overall latency. There's the device sync offset, MIDI clock offet, etc, output offsets. I've tried it all, negative and positive values - but I can't seem to get anything to affect the timing, not even making it worse.

Is there anyone who can tell me where I can plug a number, and roughly what number that might be?

If anyone helps, I'll use the bold font when thanking you.

-T

there is a lesson in live that allows you to set your audio card's latency correctly, do it.



then, realize that the latency will not be compensated for if monitor is set to on for that track, since what you here is what you get when you monitor thru the program.



here's a solution:

monitor your signal from the pod, maybe thru it's headphone out, and turn off monitoring on the live track. problem solved. i have a MOTU inteface, so i monitor thru its "cue mix", rather than thru ableton, so that does it for me.



.lm.

I've had a similar problem. The easiest way to fix it is to drag the '1' warp marker to where the guitar should come in - ie get rid of that 20 or 30 ms gap between the 1 marker and the start of the audio. After that everything'll sync up assuming you've played to tempo. Record your taps to the click track to see what I mean.

You could also set up a pre-delay (you have to click one of the button's on the right of the screen where you view/hide the cross fader, I/O's, etc.) but that's more of a mission...

Thanks, all. I've sort of solved the problem. I've set the audio output to come out of my Pod, and I mute the channel. There's still a latency I can't get Live to compensate for, but it's less.

I just unwarp my track, scoot the startpoint forward, and pray I don't want to change the tempo later.

Still, odd that I can't seem to affect the latency to get the click track and my guitar to sync up. I thought this was the 90's!

You still have a processing delay to sync your metronome to your playing even if you monitor direct. Do what was recommended earlier and run the lesson on setting up your latencies and then every thing should sync. It takes 5-10 minutes and is very easy. Monitor your playing direct instead of through Live 6 (i.e. turn monitor off). The rackmount versions of the POD have extra outs for doing this (you can use headphones on your bean).