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bioroid,

You're still not getting what I'm saying. Live is fully capable of using any of the FW410's outputs, it's just not capable of using two channels as "Master" and two other channels as "Pre-Listen" simultaneously . This has been verified to me by M-Audio over the phone, so if your system is ...

bioroid,

I think you're missing the point (I've tried this on my PC with both 2.1.2 and 3.0bX because like I said, the FW 410 software won't work at all on my Mac).

In Live, go to Preferences -> Audio, and at the bottom of that tab there is a Routing section with Master and Pre-Listen pull-downs ...

bioroid,

I think you must have not attempted this in Live -- like I said, Live doesn't recognize the FireWire 410 as a multichannel interface, it recognizes it as five two-channel interfaces. This means that when you select one of the five "interfaces" you don't get to separately select which ...

Wow. I was hoping the FireWire 410 would be the holy grail of audio interfaces, but despite the fact that it finally shipped a whopping 7 months after M-Audio's original promised release date, its software is a major disappointment.

1) The software will not run on my iBook 900. Period. Bounces a ...

Anonymous wrote:no i use a pc so i can actually have track and effect counts in the double digits! Maybe when you learn how to most effectively use Live (use a pc and external audio drive), then learn to play instruments, this whole mp3 thing will seem like a bad dream.

Troll.

wrong. two or three threads by as many people don't constitute much of in my book. Do a search on MP3 and tell me how many requests you find. Approximately as many as request VSTi.
Lets get 100% honest here--if you purchased all that music you'd have it in .wav and audio cd format. Nope, and if ...

there are pleny of other programs to use as a converter solution.

The problem is that converters are simply not a solution when you need to have access to any track on-the-fly. It's unrealistic (at best) to sit and wait for each file to convert during the middle of a set. And I think the sheer ...

yeah, but Live needs to be able to jump around in an audio file at will. QuickTime is designed for more or less linear playback -- sure, you can seek around in a file, but in general it's oriented towards a single "playback head." Live's timestretching algorithms probably wouldn't cope too well ...

So you'd prefer to wait for 5000+ mp3s to be converted to temporary WAV files each time Live starts? Never mind the fact that they'd take about 300 gigabytes of disk space (assuming each is 6 minutes long...)

MP3 support would be nice, but I think the only way it could work is to decode them in ...

Why even write dedicated MP3 decoders, etc. instead of just letting QuickTime do the file handling?

This would provide a raft of advantages, including allowing Live to support any format for which there is a QuickTime codec available (including Ogg and MP4/AAC) and would prevent Ableton to have to ...

1. both macs and pc's will make great tools to make music with Yes.
2. you get more bang for the buck with a pc. Not necessarily. If you need to run just Live with lots of effects, almost definitely.
3. and if Live is your main application, you should definitely
get a pc If Live is your only ...

Macs and PC's both make great tools and whatever works for you then fine. But it ain't better just cos it costs more has an Apple logo on or runs OSX and it's about time this myth was debunked if not only for the people that actually really do believe this.

If you can get latencies as low as you ...

>That's fascinating, because according to Mixtreme's manufacturer, it only supports latencies down to 12ms.<

Well, they are underselling themselves then as the drivers go down to 64 samples with the ASIO drivers and the plugins work internally with a 2 sample latency.

Fascinating indeed ;)

The ...

Esoterica, I have a suspicion that your Dell might be set up incorrectly. I see latencies of ~15ms with no problems with my Dell P3/866 that I bought three years ago, with a SoundBlaster Live!Platinum card, and 256 MB RDRAM.

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Like I said, it's out-of-the-box with the standard (read: "junky ...

You've been able to get less than 3ms with 16 I\O on a PC, plus onboard effects, for over four years on a PC with a Mixtreme card along with it's multi-client ASIO drivers. Two cards will give you less than 3ms with 32 I|O!

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That's fascinating, because according to Mixtreme's manufacturer ...