Small pop on Live Performance

djofonunez · Post by **djofonunez** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:03 am

Greetings,

Well I had a live performance yesterday and it seemed weird since it had never happened before. Suddenly in the middle of the set a small cut from the sound happened, and it happened like 5 times during the whole set. I have about 13gb of free space, powerbook G4 1.67 ghz and it had never happened before until now. Do you guys know what could have caused this?

Thanks
Ofo

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:05 am

Increase your buffer size, options-preferences-audio.

Then practice your set with more abuse than you do when playing Live.

If you're on a PC, use ASIO4ALL as your driver, GREAT program for low latencies.

djofonunez · Post by **djofonunez** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:13 am

Could you suggest a setting?

My settings right now are
Buffer Size: 1056 Samples
Output Latency: 25.4 ms
Input Latency 25.4

Sample Rate 44100
Overall Latency 24.5+25.4 + 0.00 = 50.8 ms

Test tone off
tone volume: -36 db
Tone Frequency 440 hz
Cpu Usage Threshold: 50%

How would you recommend I should set it up?

Thanks for your quick response
Ofo

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:16 am

Recreate the glitch then open your buffer settings window, bump the buffer size up 1 notch and abuse your set until you're satisfied it's fixed.

Can you use ASIO4ALL? That program is great.

djofonunez · Post by **djofonunez** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:32 am

I have a mac powerbook g4 not quite sure there is asio4all for mac. or is there?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:35 am

nope.

bump up your buffer size and if you're really into it, google for 'DAW optimisation' to see how you can tweak your OS, turn stuff off, etc. to get more juice.

More RAM helps too.