Best practices for calculating latency for U-SYNC?
Posted: 09 Mar 2025, 20:09
Hi all - I am attempting to record perfect audio clips in Ableton from drum beats playing into my audio interface from my external Roland MC-101 groovebox/sequencer.
- I'm using Ableton with the U-SYNC plugin.
- The audio from my Roland MC-101 groovebox is routed to the input of my audio interface.
- I have an Audio Track in Ableton recording the audio interface input
The problem: Once the Ableton clip records the drum beat sample, it will play back with either the very start of the drum beat cut off or it will start a little late (on the Ableton clip that was recorded). I end up messing around with a lot of "trial and error" for the U-SYNC setting to shift it's latency by anywhere from 20ms - 36ms, depending on the specific Ableton project I am working on.
My current method: I try recording in arrangement view, then highlighting the amount of latency with my cursor to determine the approximate amount of milliseconds that I will need to adjust in the U-SYNC "shift" settings. But this method is far from perfect and as mentioned, I end up making a lot of minor adjustments to get my sample (Ableton clip) recorded as accurately as possible.
Does anyone have a best practice method for determining the right amount of latency you're dealing with when trying to sample hardware sewuencers into Ableton audio tracks?
I wasn't able to find an anything on the forums for this but I remember seeing something related to this a while ago before I started trying to use the Midronome in this way and ran into this specific problem.
- I'm using Ableton with the U-SYNC plugin.
- The audio from my Roland MC-101 groovebox is routed to the input of my audio interface.
- I have an Audio Track in Ableton recording the audio interface input
The problem: Once the Ableton clip records the drum beat sample, it will play back with either the very start of the drum beat cut off or it will start a little late (on the Ableton clip that was recorded). I end up messing around with a lot of "trial and error" for the U-SYNC setting to shift it's latency by anywhere from 20ms - 36ms, depending on the specific Ableton project I am working on.
My current method: I try recording in arrangement view, then highlighting the amount of latency with my cursor to determine the approximate amount of milliseconds that I will need to adjust in the U-SYNC "shift" settings. But this method is far from perfect and as mentioned, I end up making a lot of minor adjustments to get my sample (Ableton clip) recorded as accurately as possible.
Does anyone have a best practice method for determining the right amount of latency you're dealing with when trying to sample hardware sewuencers into Ableton audio tracks?
I wasn't able to find an anything on the forums for this but I remember seeing something related to this a while ago before I started trying to use the Midronome in this way and ran into this specific problem.
