OK, so I got the band together for a new round of rehearsals and this time out, all the loops and samples have been moved from the trusty Emulator E4 and are playing off the iBook out of Live.
Excellent.
BUT.
Three times I had audio output stop for a couple of seconds and then pick up from where it left off.
I'm running two tracks of cue for the drummer (output via iBook built-in minijack) and three tracks of FOH (one main and two guide vocals)via an M-Audio mobile Pre. Plug-ins limited to a simple delay on one vocal and a compressor on the two drummer cues.
I thought at first that the problem might have been vibration (and therefore disc access) so after the first dropout I stuck the lappy on a doubled up sheet of bubble-wrap. But of course it did it again. Twice.
SO........firstly has anyone had this type of problem?
And secondly, if I'm to go with my paranoia, I'd like to move all VSTs off the system in case they're causing instability. But I would like to have them easily restorable for writing, when dropouts aren't a showstopper. So is there a way of telling Live to look elsewhere for the VSTs (so it can't see them and get it's knickers in a twist) and then tell it where to find them when I want them?
Ibook 800Mhz 640m RAM Tiger 10.4.2 M-Audio Mobile Pre. Live 5.03