So please explain this to me. Say I'm using a buffer of 256 with only 5.8ms delay overall. That's about what I get using my apogee Rosetta. Now I have some drums going on and CPU and s only 30% getting the mix going. I want to use an ms20 for hardware. Now if I play it outside my daw it seems fast and fluent, in the daw monitoring, which is my only choice...it seems slightly off but not a whole lot. This is straight up recording an audio channel.
Now let's say I use the external instrument to set it up to trigger midi and write in the piano roll. It sends the midi to the hardware and back to the daw.
At what point does using offset delay matter? Is there a certain overall latency say 10 and above where this starts to matter? Or even at lower buffers and 5.8ms overall I should be concerned.
I've always made a point to record bass and polys early right after drums and before vst with a low buffer. But in abelton I notice it can be a big difference. I never noticed using my ms20 without any modulation and effects. But now I'm starting to hear the imperfections. I've researched online, and outside of direct mobitoring which I don't have, what's the baseline to go on? Your overall latency? Your out? Your in?
Anyone care to please help shine some light on this and what numbers I should be looking out for or using as reference?
Submitted May 05, 2017 at 11:14PM by Mattgx082 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/69ivpz/abelton_and_hardware_delay_questions/?utm_source=ifttt