Ableton Forum

Hiya,

I have had a bit of a hardware replacement spree (caused by stuff blowing up!) and have just got it all set back up. I used to always run Ableton projects straight off the NAS, no problems, even for big complex ones...now... the little "D" light lights up all the time and I have dropouts on playback (not even tried recording yet!)

Windows (8) reports network running at 100Mps, [tested out at 60Mps by my network guy when he set it up]. "Diagnose" shows up no issues.

Collect ALL and Save, run locally - no issues.

What can I look at?

network speeds are measured in bits, not bytes... so there could be some confusion there.

if it has anything to do with the network you could be bottlenecking somewhere. there are some settings you can adjust on your adapter in Network Settings in the Control Panel... i can't imagine why you would have to, but having said that... i can't imagine why you have new equipment and only have a 10/100 NIC either. no offense meant... it's just that gigabit NICs have been the standard for years now.

also, what about your buffer settings and sample rate in Live's preferences? are you sure you have them set up the same as before?

What NAS, switch and computer do you have? Have there been any changes since your last setup, like change of OS?

Make sure all devices on the network are set to Auto Negotiation for "duplex" (check NIC settings) and on the switch too, perhaps you have a devices that are being forced to 10/100.

Try these commands in a command prompt, RSS, etc can cause performance issues with Windows shares.

netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global chimney=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

I'm guessing your audio buffer isn't big enough...
bring up audio latency and the pops will probably go away

btw why not use 1k/s conncection?

yeah sorry, not a hardware person (software, yes, hardware NO!)

Found the issue. The laptop (Lenovo U410) is *supposed* to have a gigabit N/W card, all the reviews say so... and like you I assumed it... but in reality has a 10/100. So, have spent £15 on a USB Gigabit N/W adapter. Or I'll work locally and sync up (used to that in my daily life as a developer!)

thanks to all!