Reference Manual

588 MIDI Fact Sheet
MIDI Output Test Configuration.
In all cases, the output tests showed comparable results to the input tests.
34.5 Tips for Achieving Optimal MIDI Performance
In order to help users achieve optimal MIDI performance with Live, we have provided a list of
recommended practices and program settings.
•Use the lowest possible buffer sizes available on your audio hardware, thereby keeping
latency to a minimum. Audio buffer controls are found in the Audio tab of Live‘s Prefer-
ences, and vary depending on the type of hardware you‘re using. For more information,
see the Lesson “Setting Up Audio I/O.“
•Use a high quality MIDI interface with the most current drivers in order to ensure that MIDI
timestamps are generated and processed as accurately as possible.
•Do not enable track monitoring if you are recording MIDI while listening directly to a hard-
ware device such as an external synthesizer (as opposed to listening to the device‘s audio
through Live via the External Instrument device). Likewise, disable track monitoring when
recording MIDI data that is generated by another MIDI device (such as a drum machine).
When monitoring is enabled, Live adds latency to compensate for playthrough jitter.
Therefore, it is important to only enable monitoring when actually playing through.
•The DirectMusic architecture on Windows allows outgoing MIDI events to be scheduled
by the operating system rather than scheduled by Live alone, so performance may differ
depending on whether or not you‘re using MME or DirectMusic mode. If you experience
timing issues, we recommend switching to the other mode. This is set in the MIDI Ports list in
the MIDI/Sync Preferences.
Audio Recording
(another instance of Live)
MIDI-to-Audio
Converter
Live
MIDI Clip
Audio Clip