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Im getting a lot of clicks and glitches with 7.01.

The current set is running at 20% cpu, so thats not a problem, and I even increased my audio buffer size to 256 but that makes no difference. (Motu 828 MkII Firewire)

1. Every time i click on a track header the sound glitches.
2. I also get a lot of audio clicks when recording via midi.
3. Just starting playback stutters and clicks.

The problem seems worse when I use my pianoteq and altiverb plugins.

Setup : Intel E6600, NVidia 8500 GT, 4GB Ram, Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Any help is greatly appreciated as Live is pretty much unusable for me at the moment, the clicks are driving me crazy.

I also was getting very serious stutters using my (fabulous) Pianoteq 2 as a VST.
Then an Angel came and spoke to me: UNcheck "multicore rendering" in the options menu of Pianoteq. And that did the trick for me !
But will it help you ?

thanks for the tip, but unfortunately its made no difference.

youre right though pianoteq is amazing.

I have the same problem with my MOTU VSTis. MSI and Ethno sounds clean in Logic 8 or as standalone but definitely broken in Live 7.0.1. there are a lot of clicks at the start of each midi notes (like attack in ADSR envelope would be too small).... I tried to change streaming setting but nothing helped.
Live plays clean with no streaming VSTis but dhirty with them. I have QuadCore Intel, 4GB RAM and sound is full of drop outs about 40% CPU load. Bigger buffer size did not help

It appears the Abes have finally posted a response to the pop/click/glitch issue:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80720

I'm geting it when moving clips to new scenes or tracks.

not good...

I was experiencing these clicks until user qbical suggested going over my midi device setup and I did this:

Apparently I am a novice device setup user as well. I took your suggestion and went over the midi setup. I had too many options selected, I believe. I reset everything to off and restarted my configuration. I am currently using a padKontrol and an Axiom 49. I configured each in the instant mappings and setup only input from each in the manual settings section. This seems to have gotten rid of my pops, glitches and even mousing problems. It is a bit early to say, but I haven't had a glitch since. Sounds like your "midi feedback" analysis is somewhat correct, at least there is something in terms of a conflict. Good call!

I've tried saturating the midi bus and mousing to get clicks and now unable to. Looks like this worked for me.

Bump, scratches, cracks and mac os leopard 10.5.1 blackscreens...

Live 7 keeps crashing on the regular, 3 times since yesterday, and I´m only using built-in instruments as operator and simpler. I haven´t figured it out yet if it´s Live 7 or Leopard that is unstable. Probably both. This often happens when I try to adjust a knob with the mouse. Live 6 + Tiger where smooth as hell.

I´ve got a setup with 9 operators and some fx on them (max 4, all built-in) and the CPU load jumps between 22-33% (internal soundcard) 36-57% (Edirol FA-66 audio interface) on a MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM. Latency Buffer size is 1286 samples with a latency of 9ms with a Edirol FA-66 and it stills crackles. Even if a rise it to 1472 samples with a latency of 10ms this shit still crackles. Live 7 suppose to have a new audio engine to keep the CPU load low. Exspensive disapointments.

What´s your setup/settings?

I had a lot of problems with Live 6 where the audio would dropout every minute or two. It didn't matter if I was recording or not, or how many plug-ins I was using, or the number of tracks. The glitches were random.

I finally fixed it by disabling the power management features in the BIOS, increasing Live's process priority, and disabling my wireless adapter while using Live.

Hopefully this will help others as well.