Pro Tools Carbon and Ableton Live on Laptops

[Zak7]

Hi,

Lets say I just want my whole studio system to work as intended but will bring different Laptops, yes I got the AVB connectors.

What should be the best way to run a ableton live session where the laptop runs everything and I just use PT carbon to monitor everything thru my speakers and use the mic press and instruments connected to Pro Tools Carbon?

what should be the best audio or playback engine etc?

Thanks

[dominicperry]

I don't understand any of what you're asking.

Originally Posted by Zak7

Lets say I just want my whole studio system to work as intended

What does this mean? How did you intend it to work?

but will bring different Laptops, yes I got the AVB connectors.

Do you mean PC laptops or MacBooks? Because I haven't read a single report of a PC running Windows working with Carbon and AVB.

What should be the best way to run a ableton live session where the laptop runs everything

What would be the laptop NOT running everything? What do you mean by "best way"?

and I just use PT carbon to monitor everything thru my speakers and use the mic press and instruments connected to Pro Tools Carbon?

Can you use Carbon with DAWs other than PT - yes.
Will it work with Ableton - I don't know. It does work with Logic.
You won't get any of the on-board DSP processing from the Carbon, and the round-trip latency in the DAW for monitoring might be pretty lousy, given that Avid's AVB implementation isn't very high-performance.

what should be the best audio or playback engine etc?

If you're using Ableton, then you will have to pick the Carbon as the audio interface in Ableton. I don't know how to do this, as I don't use Ableton, but it should show up as:

Pro Tools | Carbon I/O

Clearly the one marked

Pro Tools | Carbon: Reserved for Pro Tools

is not intended for Ableton.