Our issue:
Recording is always late.
When we record a simple test drum beat and metronome the recording is never in sync with the actual downbeat in live. it is always slightly behind.
I read a lot of posts on latency, monitoring On/Off, Reduced Latency when Monitoring, … Latency is negligible: 128 Samples, In 2.67ms, Out 5.69ms
But we must be missing the one thing.
Our Setup is simple:
As we are using Live for recording only (External gear only. No software instruments) the main clock is the Rytm. Rytm is syncing Live* (and the rest of the Eurorack gear).
*https://www.elektronauts.com/t/sync-abl … bpm/232350
I don’t know the reason for the long latency, but I generally sync any machine I want to record from Ableton Live.
I use the equipment the same way you do, Live as a glorified tape recorder, but I have a sync audio signal (just pulses) running out from Ableton Live and into an E-RM Multiclock, which then syncs all my attached devices (AR, MD, DTII, Eurorack sequencers).
This way I avoid jitter in recordings, and at least they all have the same latency to begin with. I’ve never measured how much that is though
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We need a totally autonomous set!
A set that works fine with Ableton as 8 track recorder as well as an analog mixing table and a sound system. So no syncing from the DAW.
Our syncing between Rytm and Eurorack works really well! We experimented a lot and do not want to change anything: Rytm syncing the main sequencer NERDSEQ and the main clock PAMELA by DIN Sync!
We have no latency issues between Rytm and Eurorack as we do not use Overbridge. All audio into Live are managed by an Agregat Device combining Rytm and Expert sleepers ES-9 USB Audio Interface.
But the recording is always late…
here is the composition of the Agregat Device
