How to get 0 latency in Ableton?

[Dani538]

@DanJamesAUS

are you on windows or mac? what sound card are you using? is it an asio driver?

I work in Windows 10 with a AI Scarlett 2i2 they have Asio drivers. The sample

rate has to be set from the AI and can’t be changed in Ableton. I need to open the Audio Interface preferences.

@DanJamesAUS

let me know if any of that helps… how are you listen to the audio directly from the plugin?

I have a midi track with the OB plug-in so I can listen to the signal. Then I have 8 Audio Track which will listen to the 8 different Digitakt Tracks. When I record them I turn monitoring off for those tracks.

I have to check if with the other settings it works. I am at work now. But thnx for some info! Much appreciated

[Dani538]

@DanJamesAUS

are you on windows or mac? what sound card are you using? is it an asio driver?
make sure the sample rate is set to the correct setting for your soundcard

in ableton link/midi make sure to turn off sync on the DT
and turn off clock receive, transport receive on the device.
it is all taken care of by overbridge, you might be sending regular midi clock by mistake…

you said delay compensation in options does nothing? it should do something
make sure that it is on and reduced latency when monitoring also…
abletons delay compensation should take care of the latency,
but in return it makes you midi keyboard a bit slower and have latency when playing notes

let me know if any of that helps… how are you listen to the audio directly from the plugin?

Hey man, finally had some time to take a look at it.

It looks like it works. Most Tracks are on time. I only have one track that has al the non 1/4 hits late in like 16 ms. the rest works fine. Thnx. I can work with this.

[reeloy]

…the only really good results with ob i got, were by using it stand alone…

using it to capture all the swedish hardware layouts as wildly free jammed foundations and then just import those individual stems to the daw and start getting serious from scratch there, picking the cherrys, assemble a real arrangement, was always the way more clean and better workflow for me…

[talktojosh]

+1 to this, I’ve tried different approaches for reducing latency through OB into Ableton in the past, with varying degrees of success, but I just tried this method and it’s much cleaner/faster for me.

I set up a folder for each pattern, then recorded my Rtym through the standalone app, with the individual tracks for each pattern in their own folder. Popping these on the grid in Ableton was a lot faster for me than recording directly in through OB and trying to manually line everything up to deal with the latency.

[Crudeliar]

The only way to have zero latency on recordings is to monitor direct signal before entering in the computer and recording it while having monitor button off on Ableton
(see pic)

[Tapepusher]

@talktojosh

I set up a folder for each pattern, then recorded my Rtym through the standalone app

This may be a stupid question but how did you record the audio? I didn’t think those stand alone OB apps could record.

[alechko]

click on the tape icon and then select the tracks you want to capture.

[diatessaron]

This used with monitoring turned Off helped me too for reducing latency with AR, OB and Ableton on a mac.