![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re processing audio from the drum machine through Live as well, it’s possible you might encounter some latency. But you must test that for yourself with your computer, your interface, and your drum machine. It’s an idea to defer to the drum machine and let that take charge, on the basis that a dedicated hardware drum machine will have more consistent timing than a computer. When you’re setting up to sync Live with a drum machine, you should experiment and see which direction gives you the tightest sync. The DrumBrute drum machine in the tutorial is great for testing these setups, because it has full-size MIDI connections, MIDI over USB, and CV sync in/out as well. Sometimes, USB supplants MIDI ports and cables, which is not cool, and sometimes it coexists alongside them, which is much better and more flexible. ![]() As long as the manufacturer includes the adaptor in the box, and as long as you don’t lose it, then this is fine. In an effort to save space, some hardware manufacturers put MIDI ins/outs on 3.5mm jacks, which means an adaptor is required to bring it back up to a DIN-type connection. It’s important to remember that Link and MIDI work together, so computer A can use Link to sync computer B, while B sends MIDI clock to a drum machine at the same time. Go to the In/Out View for each track, choose Audio To, then ReWire Out, then Bus 1/2 to 63/64, or if using mono, Bus 1 to Bus 64. In the walkthrough, we send Live’s main stereo output into Logic, but we could equally direct each track to a different stereo pair or mono track inside Logic – ReWire supports up to 64 tracks of audio. ReWire isn’t just about timing it goes into MIDI and audio communication. This is an advantage of Link – there’s no ‘master’, everybody is free to join and leave whenever they like. Live is very accommodating and will perform either task equally well, while Logic insists on being in charge. ReWire’s need for a master/slave function can be annoying, especially if you find yourself habitually opening the applications in the wrong order! Note that you might have to quit and relaunch both applications after changing Logic’s ReWire settings. The other option is Live Mode, which will lower latency when playing ReWired instruments in real time, but demands more CPU. In our walkthrough, we’ve enabled Logic’s ReWire Playback Mode, which requires less CPU, but can introduce some latency – this is optimised for playing previously arranged/recorded material. In fact, back in the earlier days of Live, when it wasn’t so well spec’d with the instruments it has today, a Live and Reason setup was almost compulsory. ![]() The other classic ReWire team is Live with Reason. However, it makes fantastic setups with combos such as Logic and Live, with Live’s spontaneity and Logic’s detailed programming. ReWire provides perfectly timed sync between two or more applications, but it only works within one computer. This might happen because the other software involved doesn’t use Link, or we want a deeper relationship that includes audio and MIDI routing, or because we’re using hardware gear that doesn’t have WiFi – which is most of it! On the wire Link is great, but there are times when we need to use more old-school solutions. It also works cabled over ethernet, and even with wifi-enabled hardware such as Akai’s Force sampling groovebox. Last time, we talked about using Ableton Link to synchronize software on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, over a WiFi network. ![]()
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