Latency issues with Macbook Pro!

eddjc · Post by **eddjc** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:51 am

Hi all,

I've got the latest state of the art Macbook Pro 2.33Ghz 2 Gigs RAM 17" monitor. An absolutely sweet machine, however when using ableton live there seems to be a quite substantial latency problem - I'm running it through CoreAudio and it just seems I have to increase the buffer size quite alot to make it smooth - giving a latency of about 25ms which is a bit too noticeable - I would have thought my laptop would be good enough - is there anything I can do to improve this? Someone suggested to download ASIO drivers but I can't seem to find them for Mac OS X - any ideas?

Cheers
Edd

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:44 pm

Just a quick question, which version of LIVE are you using?

You can try to disable inputs in preferences? This might remove some latency?

Best,
AB

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:58 pm

25ms is really not that much if you're talking about both the in and out latency.

eddjc · Post by **eddjc** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:30 pm

The inputs are disabled already... Hmm at 25ms there's a very noticeable gap at the end of each loop...

Edd:-)

eddjc · Post by **eddjc** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:30 pm

p.s. I'm using Live 5.0.1

hivemind · Post by **hivemind** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:35 pm

eddjc wrote:p.s. I'm using Live 5.0.1

that version is not made for Intel-based Macs. upgrade to 5.2.x for Intel compatability.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:19 pm

Indeed, you HAVE to at least use 5.2 with a MBP.