Record A4 performance into Ableton Live via USB

I have tried and first recordings with hickups and later ones with just noise.
Here was the setup.
via usb, with usb audio, not overbridge. The audio card was laptop’s onboard with huge buffer (4096) which is normally sufficient even for heavy projects. Now, this was only one audio track with input from A4.

The same stuttered audio was when I tried using overbridge and A4 as synth via vst plugin, but then thought it might have to do with midi sync. In this case, however, no sync was necessary or used.

How to make this work?