This is an issue of gain-staging. If you need a brick wall limiter during tracking, to prevent peaks from blowing up your speakers, you have your iterface's outputs (or speaker inputs) set too loud. I have my modular>DAW>audio Interface setup, so that even if my modular sends out a signal which clips my inputs, the output won't be too loud for my monitors to handle.zoogoo wrote: so basicly keep the the master volume down on ableton? it just seems that i could have some kind of vst that stops harmful spikes.
The solution to this may be as simple as using a passive attenuator between the output of your audio interface and your speakers. Or you can simply turn the inputs on your speakers down.
After turning your speakers down, if you find that your synth isn't loud enough, check how much headroom you have before the inputs on your audio interface clip. If you still have a ton of headroom, turn up the output from your modular. If you find that you don't have much headroom left at your inputs, then you will need to increase the volume in Ableton Live.