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spoke too soon! major drop at the end of a 3 hour set on saturday night! the APC 40 is going on ebay....had enough!!

All sorted boys and girls!! 3 hours of non stop spinnin' tunes and not a drop in sight!! Hard drive partition was the problem....thanks again for taking the time and trouble

I switched all my files on to my main drive earlier and testing it out tonight. My drive is 250gb with main partition 219GB. The other partitions were already there and held recovery files but I reformatted the smaller partition when I installed the 64bit OS. Thought I was being clever tidying my ...

I'm clutching at straws here but if I have my MP3's on a separate partition on my HD do you think it would cause this problem??

right people...just had a sound drop out and the having been sat watching the freakin thing for an hour the disk over load indicator came on for the duration of the break. I've not noticed this before as I've usually had a crowd in front of me shouting 'sack the Dj'!!

sorry......

For some reason I couldn't change the buffer size on the M Audio driver utility so I've installed an Mobile Pre Asio4all version and changed the buffer size to 1024. On test now so fingers crossed!!!!

ONE THING I'VE FORGOT TO MENTION ALSO WAS THAT I ALSO USE AN APC40....

THANKS GUYS. I ALWAYS TURN THE WIFI OFF AND CLOSE ANY UNNECESSARY STUFF IN THE BACK GROUND.

I WONDERED WHETHER IT WAS MY MOBILE PRE DRIVER BUT I GET THE SAME ON TEST AT HOME WITH THE ONBOARD SOUND. IT'S DOING MY FREAKIN NUT!!!AND JUMPING BACK ON TO CD'S HALF WAY THROUGH A SET...WHAT A BALL ACHE ...

-ARE YOU USING THE LATEST, UPDATED DRIVERS FOR YOUR M-AUDIO INTERFACE? YES
-HAVE YOU TRIED USING A DIFFERENT USB CABLE? NO
-HAVE YOU TRIED A DIFFERENT AUDIO INTERFACE?NO
-DOES THIS HAPPEN WHEN YOU ARE USING THE INTERNAL SOUNDCARD INSTEAD OF THE THE M-AUDIO INTERFACE? YES
-WHEN THE AUDIO CUTS OUT ...

I'M RUNNING ABLETON 8.15 ON WINDOWS 7 64 BIT WITH A MOBILE PRE USB AUDIO.

WORKED FINE UNTIL I CHANGED TO A NEW LAPTOP (HPG62/i3 PROCESSOR/4GB RAM)

I USE ABLETON TO DJ AND FIND THAT QUITE RANDOMLY THE SOUND DROPS OUT COMPLETELY. THE CLIP TIMING CONTINUES TO COUNT DOWN BUT I JUST LOOSE ALL SOUND FOR ...