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Hi,
I am having very irritating problems with version 4.04. I recently formatted my hard drive (after a nasty little virus came along, and wiped out every single piece of music I have written in the last 2 years- remember to back stuff up people, I didn't) I have installed everything again, including upgrading to version 4.04, and the latest version of the drivers for my M-audio Quattro soundcard. When I play Live, the audio runs, starting a little crackly, with plenty of weird audio artifacts, and then calms down again, playing as it should. About 20-30 mins later the crackling comes back, and the audio just suddenly drops out completely. I am on to M-Audio to get an older version of my soundcard drivers, to see if that is the problem, but is there any way I can download 4.03 again and see if it is 4.04 that is causing me a big fat pain in the arse. I need to sort this out quickly, as I have a very busy musical schedule over the next couple of months, and a lot of work needs to be done.
Thanks people,
Steve

I've had something very similar happening to me except I use the M-Audio Firewire 1814 soundcard. I would love to get to the bottom of this! Bringing up the buffer got rid of the crackles, but I'm on a brand new G4 Powerbook 17" with 1.5Ghz processor and 2GB of RAM and the buffer is up to 14ms which seems like too much. My last setup which was older and less powerful only required a 7ms buffer and everything was fine. I also have serious latency issues with this setup.

hello hello,

i wrote something that could be interesting for you:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13771

let's get this bug killed

greetings,
alex

I'm having the same problem here!!!

Live4.0.4 Motu828mk2 1.09 OSX 10.3.5

I don't know why. This problem is happening with everybody who is using the latest Powerbooks.