drop outs when triggering clips
drop outs when triggering clips
Hi
I quite frequently get drop outs when djing tracks in live. The drop outs happen only when triggering a new clip, and the clip begins playing.
Are there any system tweaks beyond increasing the audio buffer that may help?
I'm using a newish macbook pro and an edirol fa101
cheers
I quite frequently get drop outs when djing tracks in live. The drop outs happen only when triggering a new clip, and the clip begins playing.
Are there any system tweaks beyond increasing the audio buffer that may help?
I'm using a newish macbook pro and an edirol fa101
cheers
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
Before you trigger the clip be sure to look at the upper right section by your cpu percentage meter and you will see an icon with the letter "D". If this button lights up as you trigger the clip which results in the clip not playing back on time whenever you hit play then that means that your hard-drive is not responding quickly enough. I think one of the ways to remedy this is to go to file, "collect all and save" which will put all external files into that project so that your cpu doesn't have to look all around for those different samples. I don't know why this would doing that on a new macbook so that might not be the issue but either way if the "D" button lights up then you know what it is.
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Re: drop outs when triggering clips
Hi. It does seem to be a hard drive problem.
I'm only djing whole mp3 files though, and they're all in the same folder. I don;t see how that could be stressing the disk, unless it's really fragmented.
I'm only djing whole mp3 files though, and they're all in the same folder. I don;t see how that could be stressing the disk, unless it's really fragmented.
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
Yeah that's what I figured. I've got a Seagate Momentus XT hyrbrid drive and that shit still gives me the hard=drive button. But it only does it when I have say a clip that i've warped and I didn't crop the rest of the song out. I.E. I'm only using 30 seconds of a 5 minute song so when I delete the unused part it usually responds quicker because I'm guessing it has a smaller file to locate on the drive. Good luck in getting that to work!
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Re: drop outs when triggering clips
Hah, crazy.
Surely thousands of people use Ableton Live to dj mp3s on a macbook pro... I can't believe everyone gets this problem, or has to have the buffer set really high...
Surely thousands of people use Ableton Live to dj mp3s on a macbook pro... I can't believe everyone gets this problem, or has to have the buffer set really high...
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
You might experiment with converting some of those mp3s to wave or aiff and see if it helps. It might be a disk problem, but it might also be that the mp3 decoder is having a hard time catching up with the first bit of audio that comes out of the file...
-Luddy
-Luddy
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
Really seems like a disk problem...
Just a trick when you setup your latency: make sure your number is one of these:
64
128
256
512
1024, etc...
never set the latency to something different: other numbers than 2^x can make your CPU/soundcard crazy.
Just a trick when you setup your latency: make sure your number is one of these:
64
128
256
512
1024, etc...
never set the latency to something different: other numbers than 2^x can make your CPU/soundcard crazy.
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MBP M1 Max 64 GB Ram, OSX 14.3.1
Live 10.1.43 Suite
Live 11.3.21
Live 12 Beta
Interface : Apollo Twin duo
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
@ luddy
I though the point of Ableton decoding the clips on import was that then are then stored as temporary wave files in a cache?!
ie no decoding after
I though the point of Ableton decoding the clips on import was that then are then stored as temporary wave files in a cache?!
ie no decoding after
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Re: drop outs when triggering clips
That's not true at all.
lapieuvre wrote:Really seems like a disk problem...
Just a trick when you setup your latency: make sure your number is one of these:
64
128
256
512
1024, etc...
never set the latency to something different: other numbers than 2^x can make your CPU/soundcard crazy.
Re: drop outs when triggering clips
More a question of how many tracks you run...mrboni wrote:@ luddy
I though the point of Ableton decoding the clips on import was that then are then stored as temporary wave files in a cache?!
ie no decoding after
I made the test and it worked for me...catsandwih wrote:That's not true at all.
lapieuvre wrote:
Really seems like a disk problem...
Just a trick when you setup your latency: make sure your number is one of these:
64
128
256
512
1024, etc...
never set the latency to something different: other numbers than 2^x can make your CPU/soundcard crazy.
MBP 2018, 16 GB Ram, OSX 10.15.7
MBP M1 Max 64 GB Ram, OSX 14.3.1
Live 10.1.43 Suite
Live 11.3.21
Live 12 Beta
Interface : Apollo Twin duo
MBP M1 Max 64 GB Ram, OSX 14.3.1
Live 10.1.43 Suite
Live 11.3.21
Live 12 Beta
Interface : Apollo Twin duo