Midi Lag in Ableton

[Tomy]

The more i start pushing my stuff to get live it becomes more apparent that ableton or my computer has a pretty bad lag from midi to DAW via usb.

the lag is half a second and it drives me nuts i'm having to play a lot of things 1/2 a beat early. would be nice to retrain my brain to play on the beat again hahaha.

any help would be great, i've googled a lot and still am but there is no conrete answers apart from "get a new computer" which i'm ready to do, so over this issue.

[CBG]

you gotta get that latency down man. Puts more stain on ur cpu tho. Mines on 10.5ms input and output. 7.5ms is optimal.

Are you sure its from ur usb to the DAW and not from DAW to speakers?

Have you got an interface?

[hyperzap]

The more i start pushing my stuff to get live it becomes more apparent that ableton or my computer has a pretty bad lag from midi to DAW via usb.

the lag is half a second and it drives me nuts i'm having to play a lot of things 1/2 a beat early. would be nice to retrain my brain to play on the beat again hahaha.

any help would be great, i've googled a lot and still am but there is no conrete answers apart from "get a new computer" which i'm ready to do, so over this issue.

Is your midi clock enabled? (if your device supports it)

Also make sure that...

Yr using low latency audio drivers. Asio are good

And your latency settings are as low.

[Tomy]

setup is as follows.

Controllers = Akai MPK49 & novation launch pad direct usb connected into ableton.

audio from ableton into tascam us122L (shame i know but it portable) via usb

[Tomy]

here's whats in my settings.

i haven't really researched much about this yet so my knowledge is pretty limited at the moment.

[CBG]

i reckon its daw to speakers man. 97 is really high. u mite need an interface. i have an edirol fa 66, it rocks

[Tomy]

yeah the tascam is an interface but its pretty nasty.

time to invest in a new one see if that works.

[CBG]

it wil. plus install asio drivers

[Tomy]

updated the sound driver for my sound card and believe it or not on my sound card diver there is a drop down box which lets you choose from highest latency to lowest with 5 other options in between. I set it on lowest of course and its seemed to fix my problems.

why on earth it has an option for highest latency i will never know.

[Tomy]

played trough a few tracks just now. its still the tiniest bit out but much better than it was. although sound card is making a unnerving crackling sound.

[CBG]

it has a high setting to ease load on cpu. its adviseable to do whem ur inputting midi

[Tomy]

i see,

this crackling noise is shitting me. time for a new interface. Focusrite here i come.

[CBG]

wen ur not inputting midi*

[ChevChelios]

your always gonna have lag problems when using heaps of usb shit, get a midi transport init.

[Tomy]

This is what i got form tascam support about the clicking.

Thomas,

Make sure that the driver and firmware are both up-to-date for the US-122L. If so, try removing and re-installing the driver.

DRIVER 64 bit v 2.01

DIVER 32 bit v 2.00

FIRMWARE v 1.12

http://www.tascam.com/product/us-122l/downloads/

Also make sure that all updates have been installed for the recording application.

Disable any anti-virus, spyware protection, firewall etc. before downloading and installing the driver/firmware.

Eliminate any unnecessary devices from the USB ports.

If issues persists, there may be a component on this particular PC that is conflicting with the unit or driver (USB or video card, application or software installed on the computer etc.).

If available, test the unit on another computer to determine if the unit is faulty.

i've already tried all of this. contacting supprort was my last chance to figur it out.

upgrading on the weekend to Mac perhaps but defs. upgrading to Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP.

http://www.storedj.com.au/products/product.php?id=2650

[CBG]

yeah saphire go gd

[ChevChelios]

mmmm focusritedelicious

[Tomy]

mac + new sound interface = good way to blow 2k in a day

[Tomy]

i ended up getting this bad boy. mainly because i can start you tracktor with it. so 2 birds 1 stone plus $100 then i was planing on paying. bam!

still no mac yet haha. trying to wait as long as possible.

[Tomy]

thats a big picutre.

[ChevChelios]

Comes with guitar rig too, thats sweet, is it like an LE version or something?

[CBG]

Interfaces are so nice. I have my decks and a synth running into mine, and monitors out