Ableton live 8.0.4 hard drive dropping out all the time....

[essouna]

Hi there I really need some help, i don t actually understand why i can t play a session with 25 tracks 3.30 minutes song very basic no plugins or instruments at all ,everything was bounced from a logic studio session, it plays but the sound drops out all the time like really all the time, i changed the buffer size it didn t change a thing and cpu usage is only 8% here are the specs of my computer


Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.20f4
Serial Number (system): W8805LP8X85
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001EC212308C


I bought another external hard drive a Lacie 1TO at 7200 rpm just to be sure i didn t have any problems with my own HD...How come Ableton live can t support more than 25 tracks...


My cpu usage is only at 8% , 25 tracks, no plugins....please help or reimbourse me...

[kleine]

Hello,

25 tracks are usually no problem at all with your specs.
Please let us know:
- which buffer size do you use (see Preferences/audio)
- which sample rate ( " " " )
- do you get a flashing red "D" (in the right upper corner)
- does the problem persist after saving your set and reloading it?

Best,
Christian

[essouna]

Hello Christian, i tried different buffer sizes, 512, 1024, the session is in 44.1khz,

yes i get the D for dropout all the time...I managed to read more tracks after importing them one after the other...and wait for each track to be totally rendered...VERY time consuming...what surprises me the most is that i can read the same session on my PC,

Dell Quad Core...same external hard drive...so the Hard Drive isn t the problem, to me it s a problem of integration between live and OS X...I don t have anything else than Logic 8 and Ableton Live installed on my computers..But it won t play correctly on either my mac book or Imac...this is a serious problem...as i m always working with around 50 tracks...full of plugins...

And this is actually working under Windows XP...Cpu 4%

On Imac Cpu is 8%

Thank you..

Alexis Charrier.

www.alexischarrier.com

[The Cube]

I am getting the same irritating problem. Difference being that the droputs dont happen all the time but only once in a while but at least once in a multitrack session I have where I playback around 17 stereo tracks and try to record just one back from my ULN-8 card from Metric Halo. I tried this both from my Macbook pros HD and from an external eSata HD. Same problems as the "D" lits up in red once in a while but at least once during this 3.30 mins session, and its enough to ruin both playback and recording.

Ive ruled out everything already by also having tried diffent audio buffers etc etc and always same problem.

I am using Live 8.0.4 on a MBP (santarosa) with 4Gb and an Metric Halo ULN-8 with their latest 5.2 drivers and Mio Console.

Please HELP!

[essouna]

I am getting the same irritating problem. Difference being that the droputs dont happen all the time but only once in a while but at least once in a multitrack session I have where I playback around 17 stereo tracks and try to record just one back from my ULN-8 card from Metric Halo. I tried this both from my Macbook pros HD and from an external eSata HD. Same problems as the "D" lits up in red once in a while but at least once during this 3.30 mins session, and its enough to ruin both playback and recording.

Ive ruled out everything already by also having tried diffent audio buffers etc etc and always same problem.

I am using Live 8.0.4 on a MBP (santarosa) with 4Gb and an Metric Halo ULN-8 with their latest 5.2 drivers and Mio Console.

Please HELP!

Ok I managed to make this thing work by importing each track very slowly one at a time...

You also can Flatten the tracks...you do freeze track and go to edit Flatten, you ll see a great difference in performance...

But still it s weird that to me it only happens when the files are coming from another software...

If i record directly in Ableton, I don't see any limitation...

[legion within]

I too am having problems with the dread flashing D in the upper right on my 2.2 Santa Rosa MBP.

Never happened before 8.0.4, got to say, it is pretty annoying. I think it is a software glitch with OS X.

[essouna]

I must agree to that...On other softwares it works perfectly so it s not computer related priblem but a software problem...but still...WE LOVE ABLETON LIVE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS...

[The Cube]

I must agree to that...On other softwares it works perfectly so it s not computer related priblem but a software problem...but still...WE LOVE ABLETON LIVE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS...

By saying keep up the good work you mean FIX THIS DAMN BUG QUICK!

[essouna]

Yes I Do, but considering all the really creative features that we find in Ableton this kind of bugs are unevitable...I work for one of the two major video games company in the world, and having a flawless video games is so complicated, off course a music soft will have some bugs..

[ioxa]

Of course it's a great application but it's called Ableton LIVE and it drops out at least once every live perfomance I do...
I got a (very clean) macbook pro (HD 320 7200) and a metric halo 2882. I thought I would be safe but...
Anyway, I love ableton live and I'll keep supporting the company, it seems they really try hard to make things even better.
Cheers