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- 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.

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

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

Upgraded. Same problem.

Audio Hardware Preferences >

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

That has nothing to do with nothing about actual performance

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

so what's causing the problem?

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

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

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.