Lots of people complain that ableton isn't very stable and has way more MIDI jitter than other daw's.
I just did some tests, and I have to say the difference is imperceptible.
What I did.
- Create the shortest possible noise pulse on my analog rytm.
- Create a 16th note pattern at 120BPM for 2 minutes.
- Record this in both DAW's with just one MIDI channel and one audio channel, no plugins.
- The setup was entirely the same, no background processes and the same buffer size and sample rate.
- I imported Ableton's recording back into Cubase.
- There was an overal static offset so I manually lined it up as best as possible.
- I recorded the audio from cubase 2 times to show variations in the recording itself.
The result is practically the same.
Sometimes we're just too focussed on details that nobody is ever going to hear.