Live plugins latency chart?

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meeble
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Live plugins latency chart?

Post by meeble » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:08 pm

Hello,

Does anyone know which of Live's built in audio plugins run at zero latency and which
ones add some latency to the audio path? We are trying to remove all plugins that add
latency from our set when playing live.

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Re: Live plugins latency chart?

Post by Budbertzerofluff » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:57 pm

Is there really such a thing as a "zero latency plugin"?

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Re: Live plugins latency chart?

Post by magestro » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:41 am

Budbertzerofluff wrote:Is there really such a thing as a "zero latency plugin"?
i guess not, only a latency you would not reckogize while playing live, since you are able to adopt to certain and minimal timing issues.

AFAIK the limiter does insert a vast latency, might be only a problem in my setup though.

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Re: Live plugins latency chart?

Post by meeble » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:41 pm

Budbertzerofluff wrote:Is there really such a thing as a "zero latency plugin"?
yes there are some plugins that do not add any latency. but for the sake of the discussion, I consider a plugin zero latency even if it adds 1-10 samples.

For example, Waves Ren Comp adds 64 samples, which is more than I want to deal with when playing live.

Does anyone have any info about the built in Ableton effects and their latency amounts?
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Re: Live plugins latency chart?

Post by [mid] » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:33 pm

Hi there,

the AAS instruments introduce the latency of the set CPU buffer size.

Compressor and Limiter introduce the latency of the set look-ahead. Gate has 1.5ms. Erosion has 5ms.
Reverb introduces 8 samples of latency. The other Ableton plugins have just a few samples of latency.

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