Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Having issues with Live not syncing, not compensating delay, behaving weirdly under monitoring, not playing nice with your hardware synths, in USB or DIN MIDI?

In this video we meticulously test and measure the issues, find the right settings to turn on and tweak, even in the most advanced and intricate session types. That's a bold statement, I know, so I am curious to hear if this fixed it for you, if there's anything else that doesn't work or if there are huge mistakes I have done, in this video. Let's go!

📓 *CHAPTERS:*
00:00 Introduction
00:20 The issue with Ableton Live
01:18 Test Session Overview
03:29 FIX 1 - Why it kinda works already
04:31 Why FIX 1 is good but not perfect
07:23 Understanding INPUT MONITORING in Live
08:32 FIX 2 - Getting INPUT MONITORING in SYNC!
10:43 FIX 3 - Removing technical latency via DRIVER ERROR COMPENSATION
13:04 Further Testing: Complicating and Stressing the Session with routing and plug-ins
16:20 INPUT MONITORING for hardware FX pedals (Strymon/Eventide)
20:49 Going Nuts: Live Capturing the Octatrack, with plug-ins and FX
23:44 Going Nuts x2: Internal capture of the Octatrack, in INPUT MONITORING w/ FX
26:28 Conclusions

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- @WeAreElektron Octatrack MKII and Analog Four Keys
- @McDSPTV AC101 and AC202
- @Heavyocitymedia MICROFX Obscene
- @ValhallaDSP Valhalla Room
- @crush_audio Crush FX
- @soundtoys Crystallizer and EchoBoy

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