Deleting the prefrences on windows XP

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:46 am

I was fooling around, trying to fix the audio glitches I'm experiencing using live 5.03 and an maudio firewire audiophile interface. So...one of the things I was going to try was deleting c:\windows\documents and user settings\username\application data\ableton\live 5.03

live 5.02 was there also....so when I deleted them, and started live...it asked me for my serial number, so I fed it the digits and next thing it wanted to unlock online , or via the unlock key.

so the question is, is that supposed to happen ?....I plan on ditching this vaio as-soon-as-poss so its already a pain that I;ve wasted one unlock on it....

anyways, I restored the 5.03 and 5.02 folders .....because I didnt want to go using a unlock
and I still have the audio glitches.

as a sidenote, I tried using asio drivers (not the maudio one) and turned the buffers up high, the result was a very lagged out live. moving audio track volumes up and down was really jerky, and you see the movement onscreen about a second before you hear the result. same goes for clip changes. for a 4 note clip, the pie would have progressed around a quarter before you would hear the clip start ....dont recall the tempo, probably low like 80

trying a new maudio driver today, fingers crossed.

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:35 pm

You don't trash the whole folder. You have to go in the folder and there is another folder named preferences, and then within that folder is a file called 'preferences.cfg'. This is the file that you want to trash if I recall correctly.

Just the file, not the whole folder. If you notice, there is another folder named unlock. This holds the unlock key.

Best of luck.

Cheers, AB

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:42 am

cheers , I guessed as much. Feel silly for not doing that in the first place, heh.

Anyways, I ditched the prefs, installed a new driver for my interface....and Im still getting the glitches and pops....sometimes cpu related, but i dont think i should be experiencing them at 20% ,,,sometimes it will go from 8% to 10% and will pop and click.....

oh well....it does sound improved enough to be less depressing to use tho.

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:35 am

I guess the only other thing to check is the latency settings?

I know that sounds really simplistic, but it has happened to other users.

For me, everything is finally working pretty well.

The only strange thing that happened was that a delay seemed to end up missing in one of my tracks. I mean in updating to 5.0.3.

Also, thought I suspect you are a pretty knowledgeable user, what soundcard are you using?

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:14 pm

Hey henry, how about getting rid of that picture in your sig? It's OK but when you post multiple replies in a thread it comes by as many times and I'm getting a bit sick of seeing it, and also of having to scroll a whole lot more than would be necessary otherwise.

Muchos gracias!

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:26 am

done and dusted.

i've had some improvements by downloading the latest drivers from maudio;s website. still some older, very simple, sets pop and click...but it eventually stopped after you let it play for a while. and i havent noticed any problems now with new sets. so far..

happy days!

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:48 pm

henry ford wrote:done and dusted.

Cheers!