Firestorm79
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Ok guys I don't think I fully understand latency yet. I understand it's the delay between the action of playing/producing the sound and for the ear to actually hear the sound.
I'm using the bundled ableton live 8 lite that came with my scarlett 8i6. I laid down the first track (guitar part) stick in some midi drums and bass. composed several 'scenes' then stuck them all together in the arrangement view.
Now I wanted record another guitar part in arrangement view and vocals in arrangement view whilst listening to the backing track through my headphones (attached to the Focusrite), but there's always a bit of lag on the overlaid track. The lead guitar is always a bit behind the backing track as are the vocals.
There's obviously some latency when I'm monitoring the backing track and recording the new track. Also when I play the guitar and monitor through the DAW (as opposed to direct monitoring through the Scarlett) there's a doubling effect, which I believe is also due to latency. Are these two different types of latency? If so how do I reduce them to near-zero? I should think with the beastly computer I am using there shouldn't be any CPU issues.
Please tell me step by step how to reduce this latency (I know it's in the preference screen, but I can't seem to alter the buffer size). There's also an option through the Focusrite interface to change the buffer size, but this is measured in ms as opposed to sample size so I don't know whether to reduce that or increases it! And does that only effect the latency between the audio interface and the instrument (which is fine I think as I don't hear any doubling when listening to direct monitoring).
Help! Latency is killing me!
I'm using the bundled ableton live 8 lite that came with my scarlett 8i6. I laid down the first track (guitar part) stick in some midi drums and bass. composed several 'scenes' then stuck them all together in the arrangement view.
Now I wanted record another guitar part in arrangement view and vocals in arrangement view whilst listening to the backing track through my headphones (attached to the Focusrite), but there's always a bit of lag on the overlaid track. The lead guitar is always a bit behind the backing track as are the vocals.
There's obviously some latency when I'm monitoring the backing track and recording the new track. Also when I play the guitar and monitor through the DAW (as opposed to direct monitoring through the Scarlett) there's a doubling effect, which I believe is also due to latency. Are these two different types of latency? If so how do I reduce them to near-zero? I should think with the beastly computer I am using there shouldn't be any CPU issues.
Please tell me step by step how to reduce this latency (I know it's in the preference screen, but I can't seem to alter the buffer size). There's also an option through the Focusrite interface to change the buffer size, but this is measured in ms as opposed to sample size so I don't know whether to reduce that or increases it! And does that only effect the latency between the audio interface and the instrument (which is fine I think as I don't hear any doubling when listening to direct monitoring).
Help! Latency is killing me!
