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ok,

thanks everyone for your help. it seems the problem was the time stretching algorythm. i had it set to 'complex' and as soon as i switched it to 'beats' i found i could play quite a few more clips at once.

~kink

i get more or less the same performance from clips stored on the internal drive as i do on the external drive... which is wierd considering the difference in speed between the two hard drives.

core audio, built in output...

good point... i just don't like to add variables to the issue before i have fully isolated what the problem is. I'll try updating though, it can't hurt.

I've got the latency totally cranked. It's maxed right out at 394.0ms. Still getting glitches... seems to be when I change scenes is when it gets the worst.

I converted all my clips to mono files to try and reduce the load, still nothing. I've even tried running the system disk and doing a disk ...

Hi Guys,

I'm running a 15" Powerbook 1.5GHz G4 with 1.5GB of RAM. I am running OSX v10.3.9 and I run my audio clips off an external firewire drive which runs at 7200RPM. I am running v5.0.1 of Live.

My problem is this: I am finding the max number of simultaneous audio channels I can run in Live 5 ...