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@HYPR + Patch

I don't think this is down to the CPU, Memory or even the sound card (tho I would ditch the M-Audio piece of crap)

The trouble is hard drive speed. Laptop HDD's tend to run at 5400 RPM, normal PC/MAC HDD 7200 RPM. The faster the disk speed the faster the seek time, and when you ...

Rave wrote:Play with your buffer settings too.

The default is set to 256. I never really fiddled with this but I'll look into it. Thanks!!!

i had this problem recently.. it is so fucking random too..

in the studio i can reproduce small dropouts by just navigating scenes (not launching anything) and in the club, i was getting totally random dropouts doing nothing but basic playback of tunes and maybe tweaking volume level..

Well I'll ...

When you've got multiple channels running tunes, and you alter the master tempo, you'll get cpu overload.

AND THAT FUCKING SUCKS.

n/a. I dont touch the master tempo during a set. It's set prior to the show and dont map any midi contol to it nor do I do any manual tweaking on the fly neither. I ...

WebSite! wrote:did you see "D" sign flashing in your upper right corner of Live?
do you use Complex warp mode?
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I didnt notice it during the live set but I'll give it a test run. I use "RE-Pitch" as the default Warp setting.

hambone1 wrote:I wouldn't trust playing live through an M-Audio interface. Not if your reputation depends on it.

What Sound Card would you recommend buddy!?!?! I'm being told RME or PreSonus but I'm not convinced this is the root cause. Thanks for the input. I'll push on here.

cavern wrote:im running a viao on xp and that's never happened.

it's probably your m-audio usb thing. those are pretty shitty.

What's Sound Card would you rek then!?!?!?

Playing live the past 2 shows (dj'ing w clips; wav and mp3 files) I moderately pushed the channel volume into the red with the 3 band eq (EQ is on each channel; using 8 channels total; nothing on master) and the whole sound output dropped out until I laid off the mid range on the most recent ...