SV: SV: Ableton LIVE's ability to loop in real time

["Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>]

> I would have thought any live looping program would
> want to eliminate latency as much as possible though,
> it would be really nice if the program could 
> "play" a test pulse which could be routed out
> of the soundcard , and then back in again and recorded.
> The value obtained could then be used to make everything line up.
> 
> andy butler  


I doubt that would be needed. We're talking software here and the
computer must "know" the latency value, so it can be compensated for in
any aspect BUT "live recording". I've been working a lot with Logic and
SX and these programs does compensate automatically and it must be
possible to do that even in looping software. But a computer can never
"know" what you (the "analog" musician) is going to play into the
recording input in the next second. It only "knows" what was recorded
the second before. But, as I pointed out before, this is all right even
for live looping since the machine needs only a couple of milliseconds
to calculate latency compensation and line up the recording with the
spinning loop. I don't know much about software developing but I guess
it's called a "look-a-head function".

Best wishes

Per Boysen
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