Ableton Forum

Well, I received a very quick response from Nico at Ableton tech support (thanks!) and he wants me to try a few things. He suspects some sort of midi feedback loop might be happening. Unfortunately, I can't really test it, because guess what? The track is playing fine today. No hiccups, no stutterin...

Scratch what I said earlier about my mouse. It does still get frozen. I also just had to force another power off when Ableton locked after rendering a file.

Another thing...

When the problems do occur, the VST and Simpler tracks stutter, and it is the frozen or flattened audio tracks that just drop out.

For all of you Windows XP users, install this if you haven't already: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822603 That's the downside of keeping your music PC off of the internet. You miss these types of updates. This one is for USB problems... I don't want to jump the gun, but this seems to have lowered...

Christian, Thanks for the response. I am working on a PC and this is a new problem for me. I have a track that played fine a couple of days ago. Then Ableton froze on me, I had to reboot & re-unlock, and now if I try playing the same exact track it can't do it. It stutters all over the place or ...

I'm seeing exactly the opposite...20-40% in Live but 90 to 100% in task manager.

Just started having this problem today. I was working on a remix yesterday and it was running great. Then today, the project froze and I had no choice but to to hold down the power button to reboot my laptop (CTRL ALT DEL didn't work). Ever since then, I've been having the stuttering problem. I've b...