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running live 1.5.2 on a 2.0 ghz p4 PC, with a emi 2/6 usb sound card...and am having crackling issues. in the ctrl panel i have it set to asio/emagic, the master is set to bus 1/2 and the pre-listen through 3/4, my latency is set to 20 ms and no matter what i change it to the crackles are still there....making it basically impossible to use this for a live gig.

this is only happening with live...winamp, and soundforge, everything else is work perfectly.

i had to get my drive wiped recently and this problem was not there before.

any help would be most appreciated.

Hi gemalcolm,

please see what I posted in this thread: http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2638

regards,
Alex

ok so i added the txt file and i didn't notice any other options...i'm running 1.5.2, perhaps this fix doesn't work on this version?

i pushed the latency to about 100ms and its a bit better, but still has that annoying crackle.

Hi gemalcolm,

there's not other option when you have added the file. But it should now possible to use latencies smaller than 20ms with the EMI.

But when you say you have always crackles it sounds more like another problem. Especially the relations to the hard drive is somehow strange.
As far I know Winamp & SoundForge doesn't support ASIO so it would be good to know if another ASIOable audio app (like propellerheads Reason,...) can handle the EMI well.

regards,
Alex

Notebooks often have the ACPI problem...