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probably a new person question....

upgraded to a new pentium laptop with 2GB RAM. I don't know if my issue is latency or not. here's the deal:

I have recorded an audio track on to a song that is made up of several midi tracks. most midi is going out through sound card back to my keyboard

On playback of everything together, the midi sounds are very slightly garbled/not smooth IF I change the tempo (faster or slower).

When I adjust tempo back to the rate at which I recorded, the garbling is gone.

so is this latency? the manual doesn't have a whole lot to say on the subject.

No, it almost certainly isn't. Latency is a delay, not changing the sound.

What you describe sounds like warping. By default, audio tracks in Live are timestretched to fit the master tempo. This sometimes makes them sounds 'garbled'.

thank you.

glad to know it's not latency. that said, it still sounds bad. is this warping something everyone just deals with, or is there a way to fix it, complicated or otherwise?

So this garbling occurs on an AUDIO track (that was originally recorded from MIDI data), right?

(as opposed to, say, adjusting the master tempo on the Live file that contains your 6 MIDI tracks)

If so, then yes this is a warping problem. Change the warping type from "beat mode" to "complex" in the clip window. the manual goes into detail about what warping is and what the different warp modes are used for.

Warping isn't something we "deal with", its one of the top ten features of Live.