Edirol FA 101 interface sound latency issues..help anyone?

Jaybone · Post by **Jaybone** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:14 am

Hi.
Strange things are afoot when I'm using my Edirol FA 101 firewire interface with live. I'm running numerous instruments in to live through this interface, and upon start up everything is running fine with zero sound latency. Yet after working for about 2minutes there is a sudden crackling noise followed by a sound latency problem. For example when I play a note from my guitar it sounds delayed by a few fractions of a second....whereas when I first started working there was no latency at all. This has happened both on my imac G5 and my ibook G4 running live 5. Checked the manual but no luck....anyone have any idea what might be happening here? Thanks!

kimyo · Post by **kimyo** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:11 am

i probably can't be much help. i'm running an fa-101 on a pc, using the lowest buffer setting. it works this way most of the time, for hours on end, very low latency.

i did have an experience onstage where i had to dial up the buffer - everytime i moved the mouse i'd get distortion. that venue's power was pretty noisy.

have you got anything else on the firewire chain?

the edirol forum is pretty helpful and their tech support is easily reachable.