I have a M-Audio Fast Track that i use with the little demo of ableton livelite 4. It's pretty good, good enough for what I want with it anyways, which is just for writing my own simple songs with bass and then laying a little guitar riff over it.

I have a MAJOR problem with it though. Whenever I use it the sound is delayed, so I can't lay tracks over previously existing ones or it will be off. I can't move the tracks because it moves them by measure, and its not that far off.

:help:

Any suggestions of what I could do to get rid of the terrible delay?

Thanks ahead of time for all of your responses!

BUMP

come on, someone has to know how to at least make this problem more bearable.

I've got the same thing with my PC and using Acid Pro, there's latency that just throws it off. I've never been able to figure it out and it isn't on M-Audio's site either.

The weird thing is, I hooked up my Firestudio and my Mac and recorded over something from the other week without any problems...

It sounds like a latency issue. Not sure how to go about fixing it tho im afraid.

Latency directly corresponds with buffer size, the smaller the buffer the less latency. There should be an adjustment for this in your DAW's audio properties window.

The tradeoff is increased load on the CPU.

Have you tried diferent setting in Audacity Preferences | Audio I/O page. I have "Play other tracks while recording new one" check and none of the others and no problems.

I'm not really familiar with ableton, but in Cubase there's a settings window where you can change the ASIO driver, perhaps it's using the one for your onboard sound card instead of the M-Audio? I also have a software control panel for my interface that lets me adjust the buffer size, does the M-Audio?