Audio Drop Out During Live Sets?

Adam The Duke · Post by **Adam The Duke** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:35 pm

Does anybody know how to eliminate audio dropouts, which occasionally occur during playing a live set for 1hr-2hrs?

CPU never exceeds 10%, and a limiter is put on the master channel, to tame any rogue peaks..

8O · Post by 8O » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:54 pm

Hi, if it's only happening after a long time, is it possible that either your computer is overheating, or that bass vibrations are affecting the hard-drive? There was a recent thread on the latter problem recently, in the General forum I think... Maybe it's something completely different, but that just rang a bell for me when I read your post.

Adam The Duke · Post by **Adam The Duke** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:02 pm

hi

i use a usb laptop fan to keep it cool..

bass vibration could be an explanation..

i'll do a search, and try and find that topic, but if anyone has anyother suggestions, im all ears,

cheers

8O · Post by 8O » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:10 pm

Hi, found the thread I was thinking about: http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=103948 - but he mentions that he had the Hard Disk Overload light come on. So maybe different cause after all?

Adam The Duke · Post by **Adam The Duke** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:03 am

thanks again 80..that thread defintly covers it..

i think the answer is to run a portable hard drive in jelly..

Trypset · Post by **Trypset** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:52 am

does it drop out and come back in? or does it freeze the set causing you to reopen it?

i would first inspect all the connection ends for your hardware. My set froze a couple of times in the middle of a set and it took me three weeks to figure out it was a firewire cable going out. I think the end had gotten stepped on. But after replacing the cable I have had no issues.