The Lighting Controller

I have recently switched to this application from a program called DMXis for several very solid reasons. I am experiencing one major issue that effects my planned usage, and I am looking for work-arounds:

I run tracks and general show control from Ableton Live. The plan is / was to send midi note triggers via the IAC bus on Mac between Ableton Live and Live (within the lighting software).

I have created several timelines for specific songs and created triggers. When I send the trigger from Ableton by starting the song, there is an inherent delay in loading the timeline. I tried adjusting for the delay, but the problem is that it is not a perfectly consistent amount of delay. So, I can't seem to reliably trigger the timeline and have it sync with the audio correctly. Any ideas?? THANKS!

This might help: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=310

Thank you for the fast response, by I believe you may not have read my question fully. I had done a search and had already read those posts.

There is no problem with sync of audio in timeline to lights. The problem is the 1-1.5 second delay from the time the timeline is triggered til the time it actually starts playing. Please help if you can. I'm dead in the water until I resolve this and if it is unresolvable I'm going to have to return (4) interfaces and start over with different software.

Thanks.

So far, users using pure WAV files with "clean" computers report delay is roughly a half second, and this delay is constant.
We do not know why this delay is bigger and not constant with your computer.
Anyway, TimeLine can not be more accurate than a half second.

FYI, for very accurate timelined shows, we use an "audio midi player" which plays the music and sends midi notes to trigger buttons in Live.
Please watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIGTaF1RvQ&