@@spasian720 If you're still having issues try switching your driver type and using the out put in you audio interface Options > Preferences > Audio > Driver type > ASIO Make sure you use the output in you interface or you won't hear anything
With this recording method you'll always record with latency. To lower the buffer size won't solve that problem. The only possible way to record without latency is the following: Dublicate your audio track (with all vst you need for your sound). Set the first track to "Auto" and the second to "Off". Be sure to arm both tracks before recording. Hit record and play tight! After that you can delete track one. Track two was recorded without latency. Voila!
This is silly, because the Auto track will have audible latency. Use direct monitoring to keep track of your timing, and record to a channel that is "off". Bonus points if you use UAD products and can use plugins while direct monitoring/recording ;)
@@ArnaldoMessyDJ yeah, but that’s the thing. If you don’t have that option, them what, don’t record? OPs suggestion works well. Tho I just set the one track to “on” and only arm/record the other.
Thanks for this excellent resource! I searched google for a few hours and found bits and pieces, but this video was the most comprehensive and specific tutorial for guitar + ableton that I found.
Here's a tip I haven't seen anywhere, MAKE SURE you are using the ASIO driver instead of the direct input from your device. For some reason the latency is muuuuuch less when you put it through that.
@@hat_rack_3400 You might have to go into your icons on the bottom right of your taskbar (If you are on windows), go into asio and make sure it is set to your correct devices input and output.
Dude, thank you so much for this video! I've seen other videos that have missed key steps to getting rid of lag, but after I watched this there's no lag at all now!
Why does audacity get fine latency with the onboard driver then? It's literally only Ableton that is causing me to bang my heads together. Also it worked fine forever until I fiddled with the settings to get MIDI working!
The 64 sample rate is what did it for me. But not on my old potato PC. I bought an M1 Mac mini and NOW after a decade I can finally hear audio in a mic or guitar through the computer in real time. This has given me anxiety for such a long time. sigh - - - Thank you.
The only way I can get my latency down is if I lower the sample rate so low that it starts to make a fizzing sound. Also, ableton wont let me go below 256 for the input/output samples. Do you have any recommendations?
If you're still wondering make sure you're using an asio driver as your setting in ableton, if your interface doesn't have one or you are using the computer's onboard audio, download and install a free driver called asio4all (for PC at least) and select that in your ableton settings, also if your interface allows it use direct monitoring (sometimes called zero latency monitoring), that will get rid of latency virtually completely
spent five hours installing different drivers and dragging a million sliders up and down and all i had to do was click reduced latency while monitoring from the options menu... thank you
Ableton only supports minimum of 32 samples, its for safety reasons so you wouldnt get overloads/crackles. If you cant get lower than certain its because of your audio interface
I'm trying to punch in to a session that has FX and stuff I have them all disabled and it's still a second delay. a brand new session I don't have the latency, what the heck should i do
Finally!! Been trying to solve this for weeks. My latency was by like half a second though. Turns out I have to select DRIVER TYPE: "ASIO" and use the output in my audio interface Focusrite gen 3. I can't use mme/directx and plug headphones into the jack in my computer
First time I encountered that latency, I reduced the delay in settings manually. There’s an icon in right bottom menu under I/O (show delays) and it worked too
Awesome, thanks so much! Interesting that my interface had issues with 128 (not just latency..crackling) though 64 works great. Also have an absurd amount of 3rd parties rockin but we still rollin!
Thanks so much! Good question, the audio quality will be affected by your sample rate but 44100 or 48000 is great for most applications however. Cheers!
I thought when you record with in and on auto it will always record that latency. I usually have one track for monitoring and one track to record with monitoring off.
You may have some latency if you have any audio effects on the track you are recording on. Sometimes disabling them entirely isn’t enough to bring that latency down. Many people prefer to just use their interfaces’ zero latency audio input monitoring and set monitoring to Off just like in your case!
Thank you so much for this video. How do you get 0 overall latency ? Im really struggling to find an audio interface that is under 150$ but with the ability to have low latency and have the CUE routed to headphones. All other videos and forums say that you can get it as low as 10 ms which is still bad for live use. The cheapest i could find with separate headphones cue, is the behringer 204 but im really afraid that whatever I get will still not be good enough for live use. Is it something that can be fixed? How did you get that 0 overall latency ? Thanks again
Stephanos Philippou thanks for this question Stephanos! Your question brings up some good problems and I plan to make a part 2 video on more advanced latency solutions. It depends what you are looking to do however. If you would like to monitor a live instrument directly, many interfaces will allow you to use Direct Monitoring on the hardware to bypass the Ableton and listen to the signals going into the interface with zero latency. However if you would like to add FXs and processing and Ableton and still use the headphone cue in Ableton, you need an interface that allows you to route multiple outputs to your headphone jack. I use the iConnectivity Audio 4+ because it allows me to do a variety of custom input/output routings for live shows. However, this method is still subject to adding a small bit of latency (within 10ms depending on the FXs.) Be sure to stick around for part 2 soon or send me a message. I’ll be covering more advanced topics in that! Cheers
yeah me to ill clap to a metronome and then i'll play it back with the metronome and it'll be off but it wasnt like that the first day i used it cuz i recorded a song and it was never off
Hi ! Thx for the video, i have an another solution for less delay ! If you use external instrument on midi track with the good rooting ! There is less delay on your record but use 2tracks on your deck (1 midi track and 1 audio track with input from midi track created before, groupe them and rename Perfect if you have a lot gears ! External instrument is more stable that recording directly, I think. I see this tips after a lot recording session with all my synth What do you think ?
Hey! That is an awesome solution, yes. Great work finding that workaround. I have certainly tried it out with some hardware synths but maybe I should revisit. Thanks for that! Cheers!
Something that people dont mention a lot is do not use bluetooth headphones cause they will cause lag no matter what you do and i feel like it needs to be mentioned cause i see people complaining they still have lag and i just figured out how bad bluetooth headphones are for it so maybe thats the reason people cant fix there lag. Its something simple but nobody mentions it
Totally agreed! This is so important as Bluetooth headphones and earbuds have become so popular in the last 2 years. I’ll be sure to mention it in the next revision!
Can someone please explain to me what ASIO is and how to install it/use it with ableton? I have the beginner ableton and it wont let me edit my latency and i'm so confused and i'm very new to this app pls help.
preferences > audio > lower buffer size. then options > reduced latency when monitoring
bro you fucking saved my life lmfao.. thank you
this comments all you need tbh
@@vbetv4884 did that and still not working for me :(
@@spasian720 If you're still having issues try switching your driver type and using the out put in you audio interface
Options > Preferences > Audio > Driver type > ASIO
Make sure you use the output in you interface or you won't hear anything
your a fucking legend mate
With this recording method you'll always record with latency. To lower the buffer size won't solve that problem. The only possible way to record without latency is the following: Dublicate your audio track (with all vst you need for your sound). Set the first track to "Auto" and the second to "Off". Be sure to arm both tracks before recording. Hit record and play tight! After that you can delete track one. Track two was recorded without latency. Voila!
but I wont be able to listen to my MIDI keyboard, or?
@@burak1987 just set the first channel to IN. No need to record both tracks...
This is silly, because the Auto track will have audible latency. Use direct monitoring to keep track of your timing, and record to a channel that is "off". Bonus points if you use UAD products and can use plugins while direct monitoring/recording ;)
@@ArnaldoMessyDJ yeah, but that’s the thing. If you don’t have that option, them what, don’t record?
OPs suggestion works well. Tho I just set the one track to “on” and only arm/record the other.
@@divisiona3974 You don't have direct monitoring? Every audio interface since like 2009 has that option. It's a $200 feature
Ty dude! I was just about to throw my laptop out the window
I feel ya 😂😂😂
Same lol
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I thought video editing was hard to learn. Then I opened up a DAW for the first time.
dude....
Lol same
"options > reduced latency when monitoring !" wow ... never seen that before lol. Thanks for the tip
Excellent video
Thanks for this excellent resource! I searched google for a few hours and found bits and pieces, but this video was the most comprehensive and specific tutorial for guitar + ableton that I found.
Here's a tip I haven't seen anywhere, MAKE SURE you are using the ASIO driver instead of the direct input from your device. For some reason the latency is muuuuuch less when you put it through that.
I have a Focusrite 18i8, and when I try to set it to ASIO in Ableton it stops playing sound altogether. Am I doing something wrong?
@@hat_rack_3400 You might have to go into your icons on the bottom right of your taskbar (If you are on windows), go into asio and make sure it is set to your correct devices input and output.
this solved my "choppy" audio when recording. Many thanks!
Thank you so much for this tip! I watched 3 different videos but your comment made the difference. You made my day. Thanks!
Concise, no bullshit tutorial. Very rare.
Thanks so much! Hope it’s helped!
Dude, thank you so much for this video! I've seen other videos that have missed key steps to getting rid of lag, but after I watched this there's no lag at all now!
You're welcome! Happy to hear that!
Thank you. That latenncy setting in the option menu did the difference.
fixed my problem in the first 90 seconds. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
the buffer size didn't work but that last option fixed my problem! Thank you for sharing
before i even watch this i have to say this is one of the most even aligned battle stations i have ever seen, so clean
Much love! Can’t wait to show off the new additions 🙌
your video helped me so much !!!! I had this problem for quite some time, thanks!
ALSO: make sure youre using some form of ASIO driver. The onboard sound will never get good latency. Thanks for this.
Oh my God I feel so stupid you just saved my ass from a year in the past thank you kind sir
Well, this one saved me. Thank you.
@@NathanEddington me too 😂 big relief
Oh Man, thank you so much!
Why does audacity get fine latency with the onboard driver then? It's literally only Ableton that is causing me to bang my heads together. Also it worked fine forever until I fiddled with the settings to get MIDI working!
Dood..you solved a million dollat problem for me...getting synths in time thru syn mc into abelton..thanks alot !!
SAVED ME FROM A LOT OF TIME SPEND. THANKS
THANKS A LOT You actually deserve million subs 😊✔
Awesome! I was considering getting a new sound card, and that wouldn't even have fixed it! Thanks man well explained.
Sheesh! I had no idea that last tip would work! Thank you man!!
Thanks very much it worked = SELECT ASIO IN THE PREFERENCES >OPTIONS>AUDIO>ASIO {not direct/audio/mme etc.} SELECT ASIO ASIO ASIO
Thank you! Solved my problem!
Happy to hear that, you’re welcome!
The 64 sample rate is what did it for me. But not on my old potato PC. I bought an M1 Mac mini and NOW after a decade I can finally hear audio in a mic or guitar through the computer in real time. This has given me anxiety for such a long time. sigh - - - Thank you.
Fixed my latency issue. Thank you very much!
Thank you, I benefited from this video and found a solution to my problem😍 .
Cant wait to see your subscribers go million
Dude how else can I support yall cause this was short and informative and got straight to the point
Thanks so much! Stay tuned, there's some new stuff coming very soon next month! Cheers
The only way I can get my latency down is if I lower the sample rate so low that it starts to make a fizzing sound. Also, ableton wont let me go below 256 for the input/output samples. Do you have any recommendations?
I have the same problem.
If you're still wondering make sure you're using an asio driver as your setting in ableton, if your interface doesn't have one or you are using the computer's onboard audio, download and install a free driver called asio4all (for PC at least) and select that in your ableton settings, also if your interface allows it use direct monitoring (sometimes called zero latency monitoring), that will get rid of latency virtually completely
@@thirfytash7286 Thanks
@@nautilusmagellan7263 no problem!
@@thirfytash7286 This was exactly what I needed! Thank you!
Thank you SO MUCH for this. Subscribed
Finally a video that helps me to reduce that fckin latency. Thanks
Glad I could help
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Very helpful video! Thanks!
Thanks for this. Easy to digest and top notch tips. Keep it up
Thank you so much. This really really helped
Thanks man, just got started with recording at home and had some major audio latency problems. This has solved it though, cheers
short, sweet, to the point. thanks bro bro
You are the best my dude !!!!
Or you can just leave it on the "In" setting and that lets you listen to your input signal
Thank you so much for the quality content!
spent five hours installing different drivers and dragging a million sliders up and down and all i had to do was click reduced latency while monitoring from the options menu...
thank you
cant set buffer size to 64. the min is 256. why is that?
BatutzTheGreat me too, I don't have the option to go any lower
had the same problem just make sure your driver type is your audio interface.
The lowest buffer size I can have is 32, I've seen it as low as 15. Not sure why!
Ableton only supports minimum of 32 samples, its for safety reasons so you wouldnt get overloads/crackles. If you cant get lower than certain its because of your audio interface
absolutely fantastic, thanks heaps
Very helpful. subbed for sure!
Thank you! Glad it helped!
Thanks for the tips and love that Grassroots Sakito's guitar!
The second part of that comment is not something I expected! Thank you!! 🤟
I'm trying to punch in to a session that has FX and stuff I have them all disabled and it's still a second delay. a brand new session I don't have the latency, what the heck should i do
Thanks! This was super helpful
Awesome, thank you for making this.
dee see Thank you for checking this out, and you’re welcome!
Legit video! Thanks!
that helped me fr man, thanks a lot
Finally!! Been trying to solve this for weeks. My latency was by like half a second though. Turns out I have to select DRIVER TYPE: "ASIO" and use the output in my audio interface Focusrite gen 3. I can't use mme/directx and plug headphones into the jack in my computer
Thanks for the in depth explanation
well explained deserve way more views, was about to succumb to fuckin apple and buy logic but it helped my latency problems thank you youre the best
Hey great video but you should also go over the driver error compensation
Thanks a ton bro .. I hv bn struggling with this ..god bless
You're the best!!! Thanks.
Trying this when I get home from work!!!
so i did this and now my mic sounds distorted :/
First time I encountered that latency, I reduced the delay in settings manually. There’s an icon in right bottom menu under I/O (show delays) and it worked too
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Thanks Dude!
thats a nice guitar tone! which amp sim are u using?
thank you darling
Cool video man!! Super helpful \m/
Thank you for this super helpful vid
Thanks, man!
tanks bud
Thanks!
Awesome, thanks so much! Interesting that my interface had issues with 128 (not just latency..crackling) though 64 works great. Also have an absurd amount of 3rd parties rockin but we still rollin!
i really appreciate you ty man
Thank you so much
Very cool, thank you.
Thanks.
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Excellent présentation and info.
Cheers! Thanks!
Thank you. Very usefull
Switching to the ASIO worked.
I still hear a delay even after using this trick. What else can I do??
thanks alot bro
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Sven Rock thank you so much! Stay tuned!
ty i was struggling
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THANK YOU
Good video - thanks! Gonna get me out of that Garage band = )
This guide is sooo great, thanks!
However, I'm wondering if lower sample rate is going to lower the quality of recorded audio?
Thanks so much! Good question, the audio quality will be affected by your sample rate but 44100 or 48000 is great for most applications however. Cheers!
@@PhaseLoop great, thank you again! :)
thx bro
I thought when you record with in and on auto it will always record that latency. I usually have one track for monitoring and one track to record with monitoring off.
how exactly does this 2 track method work ?? if you don't mind elaborating??
You may have some latency if you have any audio effects on the track you are recording on. Sometimes disabling them entirely isn’t enough to bring that latency down. Many people prefer to just use their interfaces’ zero latency audio input monitoring and set monitoring to Off just like in your case!
For some reason it’s not working I already am very able to in ableton but even with the settings perfect I still get a good second of delay
When I decrease the buffer size my sound starts clipping. I am trying to play a vst piano on my digital piano pls help
Thank you so much for this video.
How do you get 0 overall latency ? Im really struggling to find an audio interface that is under 150$ but with the ability to have low latency and have the CUE routed to headphones. All other videos and forums say that you can get it as low as 10 ms which is still bad for live use. The cheapest i could find with separate headphones cue, is the behringer 204 but im really afraid that whatever I get will still not be good enough for live use. Is it something that can be fixed? How did you get that 0 overall latency ?
Thanks again
Stephanos Philippou thanks for this question Stephanos! Your question brings up some good problems and I plan to make a part 2 video on more advanced latency solutions. It depends what you are looking to do however. If you would like to monitor a live instrument directly, many interfaces will allow you to use Direct Monitoring on the hardware to bypass the Ableton and listen to the signals going into the interface with zero latency. However if you would like to add FXs and processing and Ableton and still use the headphone cue in Ableton, you need an interface that allows you to route multiple outputs to your headphone jack. I use the iConnectivity Audio 4+ because it allows me to do a variety of custom input/output routings for live shows. However, this method is still subject to adding a small bit of latency (within 10ms depending on the FXs.)
Be sure to stick around for part 2 soon or send me a message. I’ll be covering more advanced topics in that! Cheers
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I've no lag when I'm monitoring. It's when I go to play back that the whole recording is a second late.
yeah me to ill clap to a metronome and then i'll play it back with the metronome and it'll be off but it wasnt like that the first day i used it cuz i recorded a song and it was never off
@@draftaccount5374 I’m having the same issue now
Does this latency happen when you are not recording but using some effects from Ableton? Thanx very much!
Hi ! Thx for the video, i have an another solution for less delay ! If you use external instrument on midi track with the good rooting ! There is less delay on your record but use 2tracks on your deck (1 midi track and 1 audio track with input from midi track created before, groupe them and rename
Perfect if you have a lot gears !
External instrument is more stable that recording directly, I think.
I see this tips after a lot recording session with all my synth
What do you think ?
Hey! That is an awesome solution, yes. Great work finding that workaround. I have certainly tried it out with some hardware synths but maybe I should revisit. Thanks for that! Cheers!
Hi what about after you record the audio and its skipping? How to fix that
Something that people dont mention a lot is do not use bluetooth headphones cause they will cause lag no matter what you do and i feel like it needs to be mentioned cause i see people complaining they still have lag and i just figured out how bad bluetooth headphones are for it so maybe thats the reason people cant fix there lag. Its something simple but nobody mentions it
Totally agreed! This is so important as Bluetooth headphones and earbuds have become so popular in the last 2 years. I’ll be sure to mention it in the next revision!
Can someone please explain to me what ASIO is and how to install it/use it with ableton? I have the beginner ableton and it wont let me edit my latency and i'm so confused and i'm very new to this app pls help.
nice thank you
Tanks mate just in case to reduce latency when monitoring the channel has to be in input thanks again
How did you record that loop without having to press the stop button? If anyone can let me know.. looks like a useful trick. Thanks
Overdub.