Seeing since it’s been quite a few years since this question was last brought up, I thought I’d hear the wizards in here, what their current take on this is.
It seems pretty stable when I’m jamming at home, and I’ll be doing a live dub set where I’m not really playing or adding anything, so the latency issue isn’t really a big thing for me.
The technology seems to have come some way since the earlier days of Overbridge and it really is a dream scenario in many ways to have my Syntakt and Digitakt II running thru the Ableton mixer for vst fx and session view modular control etc.
But I might be tempting fate or overlooking certain pitfalls I’m sure.
Are there good reasons for still avoiding this approach?
I use Overbridge all the time with the Digitakt 2, Ableton and Apple Silicon Mac to make music and I have never had problems with it. It’s been very stable and it’s never crashed. The key for me was the move to Apple Silicon. I can set the buffer size down to 64 samples. This makes it almost latency free. I wouldn’t say a normal Ableton session for me has a lot of tracks in it. But I do use all the available Overbridge tracks. And I do record them in.
I’d be pretty confident to use it in a live setup.
I too remember being very much put off by OB2 years ago. But nowadays, OB2 works like a dream in my M4 mac mini. the latency is decent enough, much tighter than it used to be… I use it all the time now.
I’d say, rehearse your set a few times, if you encounter no crashes or issues, chances are the same wont happen during a gig either?
Last year I was running my live sets with the Digitakt II or Syntakt through Overbridge all the time, and everything worked flawlessly. I used M1 Air with Ableton both for the timestretched backing tracks and for mixing the DT2/ST with the rest of the setup. Then I routed the DT2/ST as the main audio output. Worked like a charm.
