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I am using the US-122mkII with a mac powerbook. Hate it. At a latency of 40 milliseconds, which is barely usable for recording guitar, it crashes maybe every 10 minutes or so. At lower latencies the crashes are constant. I would really love some advice on a reliable soundcard to use, as I'm really ...

Hi Aiden

Yes, the Toneport is a Line 6 toneport UX2. Back around version 5, Ableton was pretty unstable using this soundcard, while it was fine with a Creative Labs one. (Ableton would crash and need a restart regularly, particularly If I tried to rearrange a track as it played.

However, in later ...

Hi dfi

I tried updating Mac osx from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4, and also updating the Line 6 drivers, but no change. Deleting the preferences file each time means I have to re-enter the custom plug-ins location every time too, which is a pain.

For now I'm going to stick with Live version 8.0.1 which has no ...

Hi dfi

Thanks for the advice. It sort of works... if I delete the file as you suggested, then start Ableton with the Toneport connected, then the Toneport is automatically selected for audio. This works fine, but the drop-down boxes for selecting audio don't work, as before.

If I then want to go ...

I've just installed Live suite 8.1.3 on my mac laptop.
On opening Live I get a message reading:

"The device "Built-in input (2 in, 0 out)" has only input channels.
Live only supports audio devices that have at least one stereo output"

Followed by another reading:

"Audio is disabled. Please ...