Live 6 Issues (clicks)

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:27 am

Yeah that's how mine was when I started... with all the midi output ports disabled, so this wont make a differenc for me. I do however have settings in the audio tab in the channel Configuration, but if I change those I get no audio at all. Should I be having this much probleme with my L6? I want to play with my new toy, but being held back by this audio probleme.

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:11 pm

thie is my set up look below at my signature.

Andreas Zapf · Post by **Andreas Zapf** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:32 pm

MODDER1 wrote:Yeah that's how mine was when I started... with all the midi output ports disabled, so this wont make a differenc for me.

Ok, and did you try deleting the midi mappings in your set? Did that change anything?

Andreas Zapf · Post by **Andreas Zapf** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:49 pm

MODDER1 wrote:I do however have settings in the audio tab in the channel Configuration, but if I change those I get no audio at all.

Generally it is a good idea to enable only the audio output channels you really need. We have been reported that the channels numbers the MOTU driver reports to Live may not match the numbers on the MOTU interface. So you may need to experiment a bit to figure out the correct setting.

Regards,
Andreas

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:00 pm

^^How does one go in experimenting in getting the correct settings?

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:02 pm

Andreas Zapf wrote:
MODDER1 wrote:Yeah that's how mine was when I started... with all the midi output ports disabled, so this wont make a differenc for me.
Ok, and did you try deleting the midi mappings in your set? Did that change anything?

I did the deletion of my midi map which is easy too do, but still no luck. How would earsing the midi change the way live works?

Andreas Zapf · Post by **Andreas Zapf** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:32 pm

When you have midi mappings for slots or knobs, Live will send midi to the controller to tell it about the slots' / knobs' state. This should generally not affect the audio performance, but I wanted to exclude a bug in this area.

Now I think it would be best if you sent me a bug reporting snapshot of your template and settings, so I can check your setup thoroughly. Here's how:

- Close Live

- Add the Line "-EventRecorder" to your options file. See http://www.ableton.com/pages/faq/options_text for details.

- Start Live again

- Kill Live using Force Quit (press command+option+esc for the Force Quit dialog)

- Start Live again.

A dialog will appear and the bug reporting package file will be saved on your desktop. Please send that file directly to me ([email protected]).

Regards,
Andreas

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:33 pm

I'm at work right now, so I wont be able to do everything right now, but I have one question....

- This is from the link you provided: First you have to create a text file called "Options.txt" in the same folder where Live's Preferences.cfg file is located... how do I make a text file? I have never made one of these before. I know where this is, but the hard part for me is creating the txt. file.

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:17 pm

Anybody know how to do this?

MODDER1 · Post by **MODDER1** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:32 pm

So i just was messing around with my live 5 and was checking out the CPU loader meter at the top right corner of the screen. In live five when my tracks load in the % it uses is like at 5%. When I play Live6 and I launch tracks the meter is jumping way past 100% causing it to mess up the audio. How come the meter jumps so high in L6 compaired to L5... even when I have all the same settings? I have to be missing some kind of setting to cause this.

nuperspective · Post by **nuperspective** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:45 am

im definately getting 'zipper' noise on my set up at the same setting as version 5 [529 buffer setting] and higher. when using large files [djing]. not noticed it 'yet' in a production set with small wav files. so i cant comment on that.

moulinex · Post by **moulinex** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:26 am

hi, my setup is:

MacBook Pro + M-audio Firewire 410 + BCR2000

I was having the same problem, which got worse when using live to play long files (djing).
at first i tought it could be disk access problems or RAM, but increasing buffer size wouldn't help

finally solved it by disabling the M-audio FW midi input and output. this a similar issue to the one i had a long time ago with live 4

hope this gets fixed soon

nuperspective · Post by **nuperspective** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:09 pm

ive just set up my laptop, which uses a indigo dj card. im still get clicks and distorted sounds here. and ive tried various latency settings.

nightmare.

signal · Post by **signal** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:15 pm

Same here. Random clicking and popping unrelated to buffer size in 6. Using latest Echo Audio drivers (Layla). Usually when recording (4-6 tracks). Never experienced this in any previous version (1-5).

KU · Post by KU » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:29 pm

Adam Standring wrote:
My setup: Athlon X2 4800, Abit AV8, 2 GB Corsair RAM, WinXP Pro SP2 with the Athlon dual core audio hotfix installed, and usual audio PC tweaks in place.

what is the Athlon dual core audio hotfix? just part of normal Windows Update?

*I looked it up. So do you think this Hotfix improves your Live performance? The thread from extrememachines says it will be included in SP3. who knows when that will be.