Reason > Live: Rewire Distortion at Minimal Settings

premodea · Post by **premodea** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:35 pm

*** PLEASE SCROLL DOWN AND READ THE WHOLE POST. THE PROBLEM IS AT THE BOTTOM***

- Intel MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.8
- Ableton Live 6.0.1 Universal Binary
- Reason 3.0.5 Universal Binary

My current arrangement is simple. In Reason, I have just one Redrum and the Audio Out device at the top. Only 5 channels of the Redrum are used and (at the top) they are rewired out to Live: Redrum Channel 1 > Audio Out 1/2, Redrum Channel 2 > Audio Out 3/4, etc.

In Live, I also have 5 tracks: Each is monitoring Audio In from the respective Redrum Channel Out.

CPU usage is at 3% and Live Preferences > Multicore / Multiprocessor Rewire is set to ON. So, with all that information out of the way, why the hell am I getting severe distortion with such minimal settings?!?! This is SEVERLY annoying. Please help, and if you have a similar system set-up please test to confirm...

Thanks. I look forward to your reply.

premodea · Post by **premodea** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:37 am

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:55 am

First of all upgrade live to the latest version...

Once you've done that come back and tell us your audio hardware preferences settings.

premodea · Post by **premodea** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:01 am

Upgraded. Same problem.

Audio Hardware Preferences >

etzilla · Post by **etzilla** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:26 pm

try set cpu usage at 70%......

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:03 pm

That has nothing to do with nothing about actual performance

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:05 pm

and i don't mean that it therefore has something to do with actual performance

well i guess it does in terms of where you set your buffer size during testing

premodea · Post by **premodea** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:46 pm

so what's causing the problem?

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:15 pm

Perhaps this has to do with the sound card driver?...you may want to try a universal ASIO driver like ASIO4ALL to see if you get better results

premodea · Post by **premodea** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:29 pm

That link is for PC. I'm on a Mac

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:37 pm

premodea wrote:That link is for PC. I'm on a Mac

Argh...sorry about...didn't read close enough above...don't know but there might be a universal ASIO driver for Mac, try Google or perhaps someone else on a Mac might know about a different driver to try.

I know I've had distortion before when using a crappy sound driver and switching to an ASIO driver made the difference...good luck.