Hello,
My AR stays in sync via Overbridge pretty well but the beats when recorded are slight ahead in time. Anyone else have this?
Thanks
You need to switch the audio channel you are recording onto from “monitor in” to “Monitor off”. You wont hear the audio as its recording but it should record in time.
Ableton applies delay compensation to audio signals so they sound in time whilst compensating for latency inducing plugins.
It does not apply the latency delay to incoming signals or send/return signals though. So therefor if you record the directly monitored sound from the inputs it will record ahead of time because the whole project has been delayed by the total amount of latency from your plugins.
Hope that makes sense lol
Hi Deaf Eric,
Thanks for the reply, I think that makes sense. So basically switch off the plugging delay compensation and the beats should land on the bar lines, right.
I noticed that the distance outfrount reduces with buffer size.
Although not being able to hear what I am playing makes things a bit pointless
Thanks
Don’t switch off the PDC
You can have one audio track with “monitor in” you can listen to this. You can then set up another audio track with its input set to your first track, set this track to “monitor off”
That way you can hear what you are playing in sync with ableton and also record on a silent track in sync.
You will still get some recording latency due to buffer size
Just wondering, on the input split, how that works with Overbridge.
If you were recording directly, you would have direct monitor enabled on your sound card so you could hear the audio with no latency whilst recording onto a track with “monitor off”
When using Overbridge you need to have “monitor in” option selected on the track to hear anything. You can work around this by using a second track with “monitor off” selected and have this routed to your first track, this is then your recording track and the first track is your listen track.
I’m surprised by that. Performance latency I understand can be a thing. My system is fast so I don’t experience performance latency problems. But a Recording latency to me is a bit weird. Since the AR is being driven by Overbridge inside Ableton. Everything should kind of know where everything else is. IE The AR knows where the sounds are in time and thus OB should also know and AB should know where OB is at.
its not performance latency, its just the way Ableton handles PDC. It doesn’t apply the latency adjustment to “monitor in” signals or the “send/return” signals.
It will apply a latency to your whole project equal to the latency of the plugins you are using, then because this doesn’t get applied to directly monitored signals, if you try and record a directly monitored signal it will appear early on the timeline.
OK that’s interesting, I’ll have a look at that next time I’m in the studio. Thanks for the chat Eric
No worries, here’s the Ableton FAQ on it 
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209072409-Delay-Compensation-FAQ
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