Nasty noise on opening Live with M-Audio MobilePre (ASIO)

jonathanpduffy · Post by **jonathanpduffy** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:15 pm

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me with a stange and consistent glitch:

I use a notebook with an M-Audio MobilePre Usb interface as my soundcard running ASIO drivers...

However, when I open Live 4 and try to load a clip or play an instrument I just get a horrible crackly, glitchy sound... The only way round this is to go to the preferences and change the soundcard to the onboard one, or to no audio, and then immediately change it back to my MobilePre... Everything is then ok.

Weird and annoying...

Any ideas?

Post by **Alex** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:38 pm

Hi jonathanpduffy,

do you get the "glitches" only once for each Live start?
How long (in seconds) are the 'glitches'?

When exactly do you get the "glitches"? For the first time you open a song or add an effect or immediately after you started Live?

regards,
Alex

Human Koala · Post by **Human Koala** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:51 pm

i've got the same prob with a m-audio quattro , but it could be an usb power prob
for example the power-save seems power off alimentation of sound card
result : glitch and scratch

HK

the wee djs · Post by **the wee djs** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:40 pm

A friend of mine had the same trouble.Downloading the latest drivers from Maudios site fixed it.

jonathanpduffy · Post by **jonathanpduffy** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:56 pm

Hi,

Been away so haven't replied to Alex's questions.

Basically Live NEVER recognises/likes the Mobile Pre (or it's ASIO driver) on first openig. This is not occasional, it's literally always. If I attempt to run any sound whatsoever through live, a sample, a vst, anything, I get a distorted and seemingly speeded up racket. If change the audio selection to no audio, or a different soundcard (the onboard sigmatel for example) and then immediately back to the Mobil -Pre and then it's ASIO driver, all is USUALLY ok.

I use Reason a lot too, and this is not normally a problem if I open live as a standalone, but obviously, when rewired into Live is the same as any sound source... messed up!

I've treid the ASIo 4 ALL driver, and while I don't get the first time distorted sound problem, I do get much higher latency.

The problem ALSO occurs if I leave the computer for a while, perhaps because it goes to sleep and then when it wakes up.. same problem all over again.

I've got a firewire port so was thinking of upgrading to a better soundcard (not lots better, but the M-Audio 410 is a contender), but don't want to go with M-Audio again if I will just have the same problem.

Any ideas?

the wee djs · Post by **the wee djs** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:44 pm

I've posted above.A friend had the same problem.He was using the drivers from the disc that came with it.We went to the M-Audio website and downloaded the latest drivers from there.Installed them.Problem gone.

Have you tried that?

jonathanpduffy · Post by **jonathanpduffy** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 9:37 pm

Yeah, I downloaded the most recent driver ,...recent, well, from feb last year... but anyway I did all of that (I'm on a pc laptop note a Mac which ha a much more recent driver).

Still the same problem.

J

mjpetersen68 · Post by **mjpetersen68** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:38 pm

I had a roughly similar issue with my almost identical setup. While I might not solve your problem completely, there might be some tips to try.

If you attempt to play a set that was recorded at, say, 44.1k with the sample rate set in live at 48k, you'll get that erratic playback you described. Now I can alomost guarantee that changing sample rates "on the fly" with Live running will cause your MobilePre to groan and crackle (until you unselect then reselect it in the devices menu, as this effectively restarts the device).

The mistake I was making is that Live seemed to open with a default sample rate of 48k in the preferences, whereas the MobilePre is a 44.1k device.

So, open up live with whatever you want your "standard new template" to be, change the sample rate in the audio preferences to 44.1k, unselect and reselect the MobilePre driver, then SAVE that as the Startup Template.

Worked for me. let us know how you get on.

Matthew

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