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You ned a low latency sound card for this work. Once installed, you can = manage your latency values in the Ableton Live's audio preferences pane. I have had good luck with MOTU 896, 828MK and all of the RE Cards. Best of luck, Daniel On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:31 AM, info@riversonicstudios.com wrote: > Hi Per, > > Thought Id get back to you to thank you and your frieds on the site for > your help. > > I have sussed the looping OK ! > > However I now have another problem: progressive latency as I am now > running my main mix > into Ableton LIVE before it reaches the the audience! I suspect I will > have to get a decent > audio interface rather than using the MacPros I/O Have tried going in > digitally from the KORG KRONOS via > optical into the Mac- makes no difference. I suspect that coming out > analog is the main culprit. > > Anyway I was just wondering how any of you guys avoid this latency when > running through ABLETON LIVE and > if a Firewire 800 unit like the MOTU 828 Mk" or the RME 800 would be the > obvious solution to this problem? > > Audio path: I run all my synths/external drums from a bus on the analog > mixer into a track on Ableton either using its LOOPER plugin > or its straight forward auto input record function making sure of course > that the track is muted once the loop plays back in either instance. > My mixer has a ":' alternate bus rooting fortunately that allows me to > reroot the returned signal from Ableton avoiding feedback: I actually > send the signal via the main bus out on the mixer and reroot the return > out of the alt3/4 bus which feeds the P.A. > > BTW please forgive my rude interuption but I dont quite understand the > format of your forum yet!.. as I understand it its all via email no? > > Thanks! Henry > >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> >> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >> Sent: Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 10:53 PM >> Subject: Re: Still More Live Questions >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@frontier.com> >> wrote: >>> Let's say I have 15 scenes in a Live Set that I want to call up and >>> use in >>> different songs. Song A might use scene 1. Song B might use scene >>> 5--and so >>> on. Maybe Song B will use two scenes--one each in different parts of >>> the >>> song. There is no way to program my MIDI controller so that scene a is >>> armed >>> when I hit song A's preset, correct? And there's no way to trigger >>> Song B's >>> different scenes on a per-preset basis --or as I need them-- in the >>> song by >>> doing that programming in advance in my MIDI controller--or is there? >> >> >> MIDI PC is not good with Live, you should use simple MIDI notes >> instead for launching scenes. To launch a scene in Live you learn the >> MIDI Note (a CC might work too) to the corresponding slot on the >> master output's column in the Session View. You can even use a MIDI >> Note that are part of what your controller is sending to your guitar >> rack when calling up a song, letting that event trigger both the >> guitar rack stuff and launching the scene in Live. And note that there >> are two options for controlling scens in Live; you may launch a scene >> directly or you may select the scene (to be launched by the next >> command). Oh, there is actually a third way (that I used myself with >> Live for a concert once) and that is to learn the MIDI note event to >> an empty scene preceding the actual scen that will start the song. >> This approach also needs that you assign Live's "trigger next" button >> to a pedal. At the gig I had this assigned both to a foot switch and a >> hand mixer knob. >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.perboysen.com >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >