Syncing JP8000 with live

Architecture · Post by **Architecture** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:37 am

I am having alot of issues with keeping appregitated material in sync with live, even though I have it synced to live via midi clock and everything. How do you compensate for the latency of the soundcard? because I am trying to figure out how I can keep my hardware stuff in sync with what i got going in the software realm.

Suburban Bather · Post by **Suburban Bather** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:42 pm

I believe you can find out how many miliseconds worth of latency your getting from Live(any DAW really).

Set up Live to record on launch, start a sequence, after its recorded go to arrange view and zoom in on the waveform so that the time line displays miliseconds. Go to the begining of the recording and measure the gap from the begining of the clip to start of the waveform. You now have a measurement of your latency.

Now that you know what your latency is, enter your latency amount in the midi delay comensation box.

I have not had a need to try this, so I can't say if its the actual fix you need, but it should work. I don't play live, so I just set my tempo, record, and drag the first warp marker to the start of waveform in the clip view and my clip jives with everything else.

Hope this sorts your problem out!

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:01 pm

It's not just latency, Live's syncing drifts in an annoying way. It's a known issue, don't know if they've fixed it yet in 7.

Suburban Bather · Post by **Suburban Bather** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:58 pm

Stab Frenzy wrote:It's not just latency, Live's syncing drifts in an annoying way. It's a known issue, don't know if they've fixed it yet in 7.

I'm still on ver. 5, and am not upgrading until I buy a new Macbook or Imac so I don't know about ver.7. But yea, I've heard lots of people complain about Live's midi. Personally I haven't noticed any drifting, but I'm not saying there is no problem with it. Every once in a while a huge debate will blow up on the Ableton forum about hardware sequencers like MPC's, RM1X, etc.... being much tighter than Live as far as midi goes.

Architecture · Post by **Architecture** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:10 am

Man im starting to miss my MMT8.

Im seriously on the verge of getting an MPC, or an RMX1, and a A6 to go along with the rest of my hardware.

Suburban Bather · Post by **Suburban Bather** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:41 am

Architecture wrote:Man im starting to miss my MMT8.

Im seriously on the verge of getting an MPC, or an RMX1, and a A6 to go along with the rest of my hardware.

Why not just snag one off of Ebay right now, their dirt cheap.

What part of Colorado are in? I lived Aurora for a couple years.

Architecture · Post by **Architecture** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:32 am

im in Summit County right now. Not much as far as music stores out here.

Someone in Denver is selling an MPC 2000XL for 550, im very tempted. Its that and an Andromeda I really want.