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I am stupid. you are stupid. everybody's stupid. I like it.

So how hard is it to upgrade RAM in a Macbook, without going with overpriced Apple store?

Anyone can do it on a desktop, but notebooks... well i've never tried.

anyone
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do you have the latest UNIVERSAL BINARY version of Live
i.e. 5.2 or 5.2.1 UB Specific.
its a $50 upgrade, i believe.

the PPC version will indeed give you glitches.


also make sure your Motu has the latest UB drivers.


also, try operating without the Motu and just using the onboard sound. If it works fine that way, then you know the problem is the Motu and contact Motu's phone support. they are very helpful.

and make sure you aren't using a firewire hub for the Motu and that you are connecting it directly to the mac.

yeah i paid for the upgrade,

just downloaded the latest drivers for the motu, not sure if they are universal binary though

i'll check the onboard sound

so it is the soundcard then

call motu
their phone support center is one of the best.

with only 512mb of ram make sure Dashboard/Bluetooth/Airport etc are all turned off.

turn off energy-saver options and make sure you're at "highest" performance settings.

try adjusting the latency buffer in the ableton preferences panel.

a. please tell what you are doing when audio is glitchy.....playing mp3? using a softsynth? etc.......

b. Double check that the buffer isn't at like 64 or something obscene.....should be at 256 or HIGHER when running at 96k. Also, in the LIVE preferences make sure that live is set to run "same as audio buffer", that way there is no "push/pull" going on.

fatrabbit wrote:So how hard is it to upgrade RAM in a Macbook, without going with overpriced Apple store?

Anyone can do it on a desktop, but notebooks... well i've never tried.

might be like the imac, it's these little bitty things.....basically, it just poped right in.

btw, I got mine about two weeks after the original release so I had to pay the high apple price for more ram The good news is that the apple ram is "certified" and doesn't always have the kernel errors that can be with third party ram.

AdamJay wrote:call motu
their phone support center is one of the best.

seriously?

fatrabbit wrote:So how hard is it to upgrade RAM in a Macbook, without going with overpriced Apple store?

Anyone can do it on a desktop, but notebooks... well i've never tried.

The macbooks have instructions on the inside of the casing, actually. It's underneath the battery, iirc..

when its glitching I am..

Running 4 audio tracks in ableton out of 4 stereo pairs of the motu into a mixer, nothing fancy
buffer is set to the highest setting possible

I plugged in the old maudio 410 to see how that would go but it was even worse

turn off airport,bluetooth,dashboard-

this actually made it quite a bit better
got an email from crucial with a tracking number for the ram it will arrive tomorrow.

I'll let you know how i get on

That has to be it.......although that seems like a pretty low amount of stuff to be having real issues.

fw 410...............HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now here's a stupid question.....you do have the UB drivers from motu (1.41 I beilieve.....) Of course you do.....what a stupid question