No Skipping in Input monitoring At Playback

I was wondering if there were any way to keep the signal from an input-monitoring track from skipping when you start playback to hear another piece of data. For instance, I keep one audio track on input-monitor in order to process the signal from Ableton Live through Logic's effect plug-ins, because Logic's are much more powerful. However, I create riffs and such with the power of Logic's soft synths, because they're likewise more powerful than anything else out there. However, I want to be able to modify the signal from Ableton while I'm listening to the riff I've designed to see how it sounds. When I do this, though, the signal from Ableton skips, and just wouldn't do in live performance. Any guidance that can be offered is great. Thanks!

Mec36 wrote:
It's actually not rewired, I'm using an application called Jack that at first seems to be overly complicating the process of sending signals from one program to another, but for my purposes, it's not. You need to set the audio drivers for ableton and logic both to JackRouter
Right, I understand what it's doing.
I don't think it's latency, because I've messed around with buffer size/range >a lot; and I don't use ReWire, so it's not that either.
Latency can arise form several sources besides the I/O buffer.
If you have a plug-in with built in latency (time it needs to process the signal) such as a compressor, Logic will automatically compensate the whole system so that audio stays in sync, that means if you're adjusting Ableton to Logic's playback the output (Ableton) will not be in sync with Logic's audio output.
I could be wrong, there's a couple of ways to test this.
1. Create a project with a couple of synth tracks to play along with, do not use any plugins, try Ableton through Jack.
2. Under Preferences/Audio/General turn Plug-in-Delay Compensation Off.
Try Ableton/Jack in an existing project that has plugins and also, a bare bones project per #1 above.
3. There's also the chance that Jack has a built in safety buffer of a few samples, this could also cause Logic to burp.
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