Audio cuts out during performance

Dustin Zahn · Post by **Dustin Zahn** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:56 am

It seems lately that the audio on cuts out for small amounts of time during use of the program. It usually only happens after 20-30 minutes of play and happens quite consistently for about 1 sec each time or something.

I'm using Windows XP professional and Ableton 2.0.1
If anyone could help I would be so greatful, seeing as I have 3 live shows to attend to in the next 2 weeks.

I've tried deframenting hte hard drive and shutting off un-needed programs. Is this a program error do you believe, or do you think its a sound card error? Ableton is the only program that has this problem.

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:33 am

2.0.1 was known to have a few bugs .... so please first upgrade to 2.1.1 and see if it continues to happen

Dustin Zahn · Post by **Dustin Zahn** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:31 pm

okay, will try it out!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:39 pm

whats yo specs--you need an external firewire hardrive at 7,200 RPM, 8 MB cache, and 8,9 ms seek time. check out sites on the net like the excellent

http://www.blackviper.com/

to tweak xp and get rid of loads of unneeded crap. Get at least 512 RAM, preferably a gig. I find live 2.0.3 to be the most stable on my xp pro toshiba 2430 gig ram, firewire drive.

good luck,

ryan

Dustin Zahn · Post by **Dustin Zahn** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 10:30 pm

2.4ghz intel laptop
512mb RAM
60gb hard drive (not sure, probably 7200rpm)

I don't know that its hardware problem, because I wasn't having these problems before.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:29 pm

only a very few, very new, laptops have 7,200 internal drives--yours is probably in the 4,000-5,400 range. depending on how many tracks your using this can be a serious issue. I've found having the audio files on my external drive makes me capable of almost twice as many tracks--not only is the 7,200 much faster than the 4,800 internal, but also having the programs on the internal drive, and audio files on a sperate drive also makes a big difference. try 2.0.3 to see if it helps

ryan

Dustin Zahn · Post by **Dustin Zahn** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:11 pm

Is there a way of checking in windows? I can't find the paperwork at the moment.