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I have an issue that I can not seem to correct with Live.

I work for a rock band and we are using Live to run our samples and a click which the musicians listen to in their in ear moniters. I run firewire out of the laptop and into a Motu which then goes to my moniter desk and front of house desk. The problem I am having is that the click, which is ran down a channel seperate from the the samples, (so the crowd can hear it) sometimes skips, or will miss a few beats. Now you can see how this could through a muscian off, esp when they are using the click as a count in for the song. Has anyone experienced this? And what did you do to correct it?

I have tested the track with just the motu and just the laptop (not ran through any of the boards and no live band playing) and I can not get it to skip. Any insite would be greatly appreciatted.

I forgot to mention that I am running Live with a new dual core Mac Book and OSX. The Mac is used stictly for Live and nothing else.

What are you using for the click? And audio file? Simpler?

Do you send samples->left main out, click to right main out, or do you have your MOTU soundcard use multiple stereo outputs?


I can't imagine how external audio gear could mess with Live.