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Echo, Tascam M-Audio etc. are hit and miss. BTW http://echoaudio.com is about the biggest steaming pile of shit of a website I've seen in a while. If it's any indication of how they write their drivers I would sell the card to someone you hate. :x The sad thing is that Echo was the best budget card...

So I monitored my set with Acitivity Monitor and it shows that Live is using 45% CPU (not 12% as Live reports itself) and coreaudiod uses 3%, but overall CPU load is just 30%. It looks quite normal for me, or am I wrong? Could this be what fishmonkey said, that the audio interface driver is interrup...

the problem is that audio glitches are easy to cause, and are not necessarily directly related to overall CPU resources. to not glitch, your machine needs to continuously and rapidly process and feed small chunks of audio to your interface. a tiny interruption in that processing is enough to cause ...

Yeah, I usually work with 256 sample buffer, and turning it down increases the dropouts, but there are still drop outs at 512 and 1024. Which is kind of weird, as on Windows with ASIO drivers it was working well on my old Core2Duo with 256 sample buffer. I was hoping that my new mac would be able to...

I have a brand new MacBook Pro 13" (Mid 2014, SSD, 16 GB RAM) with Yosemite preinstalled. And I have Echo Audiofire 4 audio interface on Firewire<->Thunderbolt adapter. So it seems to be plenty of resources to work with. But while using Ableton Live 9.1.6 I get audio dropouts (like really tiny ...

When I was a kid (around the age of 8) a learned BASIC (yep, the good 'ol dead language). After few years I forgot almost everything of it and by the age of 19 I thought that I need to learn something new. By that time it was web development hype going on so I went all PHP and a little bit later Jav...

Dell XPS M1330 4 years old, DVD died, battery died + Echo Audiofire 4 and bunch of MIDI controllers still rocking! F.. YEAH!

I'm wondering what languages any programmers may use. I want to improve on my skill set and get more involved in programming. I'm looking at Python however I want to make sure to work in something I can connect to my interest in audio and music. I'm looking for suggestions. If I had to just stick w...

Yes. I can do whatever I want with PC - I can even order it to make me a sammitch. No but seriously, here are plenty of developers/programmers, including me.

I wouldn't mind coding some stuff in Python, although I'm not very familiar with this language, but there is one more problem - the API is closed, there are things that some guys came up with Ableton 7, and then there is LiveOSC, but that's it. I would beg for official API release and all the contro...

I don't know what happened, but since the last post I did a lot of upgrades (upgraded to Suite 8.2, upgraded Novation Automap and USB drivers and went from Vista to Windows 7) and now everything works fine - I'm thinking that Vista was the problem or the USB drivers as the changelog stated something...

I don't know about Apogee One, but Echo Audiofire 2 was a great card when I had one, although 2 outputs were not enough for me. Now I have Audiofire 4. I also like the idea of chaining cards, but I think other manufacturers also support that feature. But while I'm sticking to Audiofire I'm thinking ...

I have something to say... :) First of all, I think bringing this kind of information up on Ableton's own forum is healthy for Abes them selves. I for one know that if you have your child project, you can't always see the darkness glooming over it. Be it bugs or be it piracy, you name it. It really ...

Ableton should start to listen to the big guys, like Balmer or Jobs - it's all about developers, developers, developers and of course customers, customers. And the former is the one of the roads Ableton is not willing to go right now, but they should try :) Actually the magic of software success is ...

Any suggestions for Windows users? This one has bothered me a lot lately. The problem is that Novation RemoteSL 25MkII is not made of steel and it's USB port has worn out a little bit. So I was having a gig, but to my surprise the keyboard stand moved a little bit and connection was lost. Now the on...