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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:18 pm
by Agent47
Yeah I was mixing last night and the audio dropped for about 2-3 seconds- the signal was still going as evidenced by the levels but no audio...NOT cool!
Live seems much more unstable than 4. I am not too sure about using 5 for gigs yet.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:19 pm
by hambone1
It sounds like an Impulse problem. I've had 20+ audio clips running simultaneously on my Mac without glitching or the red disk overload light, but I don't use Impulse and am using a 10,000 RPM SATA drive.
Here's hoping the Abes are working extra-hard on that 5.0.2 everyone is waiting for...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:47 pm
by Tarekith
Nah, it's not an impulse problem, happens to me when I don't even have Impulse on a track and am just triggering audio files of any length.
Sometimes I can play back 20+ tracks with no issues, other times I can't even launch one clip without the stuttering. As far as I can tell it's completely random as well, the same clip might trigger perfectly the first few times I launch it, and then stutter the next time. It's not clip, scene, plug in, or Mac/PC dependant at all.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:50 pm
by tribalogical
I'm using a pair of 300Gb 7200rpm SATA drives, with audio files running off the secondary drive (not the system drive)... there shouldn't be red-lights and glitches happening when the rest of the app is at a complete standstill (transport stopped, and nothing loaded into tracks).....
And in my case, it isn't only Impulse-related (see my last post).... it happened just previewing an Operator-based Live Clip..... which is weird, cos that doesn't involve "audio files" at all.... it was just loading an Operator and a few fx....
Something is definitely wrong with the way Live 5 is doing its disk access..... it's most obvious to me when using the new Live Clip format. Those do have to load a whole cluster of stuff (fx, instruments, samples, clips, etc.) at once...
peace,
tribalogical
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:48 am
by LOFA
I can't say I'm glad it's not just me, but at least I'm not the only one with these problems!
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:08 am
by MarkH
So the red D flashes but for some its causing audible problems and others it's not?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:34 am
by D K
same problem here- flashing d with no audible problems.
using 1.5 mac g4 12" w/1.25gig ram.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:09 am
by Tarekith
What do you all have your plug in buffer set to? I was playing with this some more last night, and it appears the plug in buffer size may have something to do with this....
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:58 am
by Emissary
i get the flashin D loads aswell, but no audio problems. Never had it once on Live 4.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:22 pm
by tribalogical
Tarekith wrote:What do you all have your plug in buffer set to? I was playing with this some more last night, and it appears the plug in buffer size may have something to do with this....
I haven't touched this setting at all... I left it at the default setting of 128.
What have you discovered so far? (the manual is not terribly clear about this one)
peace,
tribalogical
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:47 am
by Tarekith
Seems like lower settings results in this occuring much less often, but I haven't had a chance yet to explore this more fully.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:19 am
by Tarekith
Do you guys have delay compensation checked? My system seems to be fine as long as I leave this checked. So far tonight anyway....
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:10 am
by kineticUk
I just had the same problem with the flashing D yesterday.
In my case it was only when I was using impulse that I actually noticed it.
I could not tell whether it was audible.
Normal default settings for buffer etc
Anybody know what ableton say about this?
No previous problems at all with live 4