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well, I'm all in, I guess, so I'll probably be peppering this thread with annoying questions eventually. After years of making do with Studio One at a surface level, I sprang for ableton 11 + m4l + max crossgrade (I have synth modules and things that need `gen` functionality to flash; I see workarounds to getting this going in m4l with max7, but, in for a dime in for eight hundred dollars, in this case). It took me about 20 mins to rebuild the simple but functional audio and MIDI flows that I had set up in Studio One, and then another 20 mins to get a FCB1010 midi pedalboard configured to control a vocoder VST (so I can footsie my VST while I play sax through it) and another 20 mins to understand how to arm recording, record audio from my modular rack while also consuming a clock coming from the same place, and from there I had the  trip experience of loving with the tempo in ableton and having it seemingly magically sound reasonably good at tempos set in Ableton from ~40 - 340. Neat.I am trying to understand what workflow I should build for myself, as until now I've basically used the DAW-on-PC as a glorified recorder with some post-processing for compression and EQ/etc, and used Gadget from an iPad to send some midi lines into a modular rack which is otherwise controlling itself. So, now I have that same setup, but it's all clocking a KSP which is in turn clocking ableton (and able to do the somewhat limited midi->CV translation that KSP can do). My DAC is a Tascam 4x4HR rn, which is DC coupled and I believe I should be able to use the CV tool to send CV from the DAC outs into rack, using proper Tiptop cables designed for this, and realizing that I may need to use an in-rack VCA or voltage block to move voltages into CV range. We'll see when we get there. I grabbed a Launch Control Pro XL MK3 (used, $90) to use as a control surface because it looks to me like it can switch and arm tracks for recording easily, which I cannot do from the Keystep. I've also got a nanokontrol2 and nanoStudio Keys set up controlling gadget, so, at some point i'm going to need to get rid of about 75% of that before I go loving insane. I'm not looking to buy a Push any time soon, but, please encourage me to hemorrhage more money in any ways that seem helpful. (I did look at a used push 1 vs the Launch Control MK3 but decided on the latter).
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ben shapino posted:not specifically ableton live related but i just got a PC with windows 10 preinstalled and get a lot of crackling through my Motu M4 audio interface unless I put the buffer size really high, like 50ms of latency as a result. windows 10 was like 15ms without issues. I've used win11 with studio one, ableton and reaper with a UMC404HD as well as a Tascam. I appear to be using the maximum buffer right now, but on this device that is 256 samples @ 96khz so that is, uh, 2.7ms latency which is barely noticeably as a slight reverb effect when the DAC is 50/50 mixed between input vs computer. My latency problems show up when I dump gobs of VSTs on stuff in real time, as you'd expect. Are your overall levels good? Motu M4 looks like basically the same specs as the tascam I have. e: i stand corrected; I am indeed using 256 samples, the device goes up to 2048 so that's more like 20ms which would, indeed, piss me off.
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that sounds extremely annoying and you're into a level of windows audio system interactions that I am clueless about. my own default behavior would probably be to sigh and try a clean OS install, and not whatever the preinstalled/OEM build was.
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 and I almost went with a Scarlett over the Tascam
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B33rChiller posted:Wild guess it's going to be some unrelated windass background bloat auto update throwing interrupts well, one upshot of this is that I found out from Ben's posts that "Wallpaper Engine" exists and now my PC is less efficient https://i.imgur.com/wRGqTM6.mp4
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TheGoonspiracist posted:I've been running Ferromagnetic on osx, and having a music visualizer as a background really is the future we were promised. That would have been smarter, as I have thrown several thousand dollars down the LZX rabbit hole building analog video synth paths that are audio responsive. It's a background for my whole room, on a bigass projector screen plus a CRT & LCD 
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