Am i being silly?

UHE is now closed. For Technical Support from Ableton, please go here: http://www.ableton.com/support
Locked
Marco B.

Am i being silly?

Post by Marco B. » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:16 am

Just instaled 2.0.3 on my G4667 /1.5g ram. I am finding that my computer,s audio is cutting in and out every three or four loop times.I only had 4 bits of audio up at the time with ONE yes ONE plugin effect.
I have obviously not set something up right i have an 828 soundcard so my card is ok. Dose anyone know as i have a big gig in about 4 weeks and i need 2 get this sorted out

jailes
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2002 2:37 pm

ouch!

Post by jailes » Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:59 am

Hope the gig goes well.

I have almost the exact configuration, and no problems.

(although i have only 512MB of RAM)

You may want to verify that the ASIO driver is in the right Live folder.

Or check the audio settings:

1. Device type ASIO
2. MOTU FireWire Audio
3. Buffer Size = 512 samples
4. Output Latency = 11 ms
5. Input Latency = 12 ms
6. Monitor through live = no
7. Sample rate = 44100

Although you may have some functional disagreement with the above settings, they work well for me so you may want to give it a try.

Also, you probably already checked, but make sure virtual memory is turned off.

As a test, also, you may want to try creating a RAM Disk and triggering your audio files from there. If you have drop outs you could have a hard drive performance problem.

(because live streams, i'll bet you could run into some pretty junky audio with a 5400 rpm ide drive. )

But while we're on the topic, how do you solve the problem of the gain levels on your 828? I try to run my outputs into a DJ mixer and their so quiet, i have to crank the gain.

Guest

Post by Guest » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:33 pm

external 7,200 rpm firewire drive with 8 mb cache and 8.9 ms (or less) seek time is crucial--not only does it allow you to have more audio tracks, but having the programs on a seperate drive from the audio files also increases performance.

Guest

Post by Guest » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:01 pm

i had the same problem on a slightly slower powerbook.. i haven't experienced it since upgrading to 2.1.1

bencodec

you might experiment with a ram disk

Post by bencodec » Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:15 pm

marco,
since you have so much ram, why not experiment using live with a RAM disk, you'll get huge performance jumps. you can use the system ram disk, or get a shareware app called rambunctous. i can't be bothered to carry a second drive around, so this is a better way of speeding up disk access times.

Locked