ARmk2 and Overbridge in Ableton Live (treat me like I am 5)

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I am trying to understand how Overbridge for the ARmk2 is supposed to work in Ableton Live. I am running a very basic configuration. MacBook Pro with ARmk2 connected via USB. Speakers connected to Main L and R of the ARmk2.

I load the Overbridge plug-in in Live and want to hear the Main L+R output of the ARmk2 through Live. That’s it, for starters. I’ve selected Overbridge in the USB config menu of the ARmk2 and selected the ARmk2 as the interface for Live.

The issue is that while I am able to hear sound, it is doubled. When I mute the Overbridge plug-in in Live, I continue to hear the ARmk2 playing; when I unmute it, I hear the sound “doubled”, presumably playing from the device itself and Live.

I used to run Overbridge with a Digitakt and don’t recall having this issue. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere? Maybe to disable the audio engine on the device itself? I know I can remove individual tracks from going to the Main L+R to separate them out, but that’s not what I’m trying to do at this point.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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you don’t need that unless you don’t have another audio interface, in that case afaik AR is not like the digis and main will always play into headphones/main L+R, in digis there’s option to disable INT TO MAIN but on AR it’s not possible.
you will always hear both AR output and DAW output if you set it as Live’s audio device, so unless you mute the OB plugin you’ll hear double.
at least to my knowledge…

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Thank you! That was the conclusion that I had reached. I didn’t realize that the audio routing architecture was so different on the ARmk2 from the Digitakt. Odd.

I have “resolved” the issue by using the MBP output for my speakers as opposed to the Main L+R of the ARmk2 itself.

I really appreciate your response and am grateful that you took the time to explain what you did.

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no problem!