My live set starts to struggle after ~30 minutes...

Ozias Leduc · Post by **Ozias Leduc** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:27 am

Hey i'm curious as to where my problem lies here!

I have a (pretty big) live set, that's probably got about 2 gig worth of stuff in it. I have about 6 channels of audio going at a time; usually kick, percussion, synth 1, synth 2, vox, misc

It all goes fine until about 30 minutes through; and from then on when i launch a scene there's a tiny gap (say 0.3 sec of silence) before it launches - which is short, but obviously very noticable and ruins the flow of the music!

I wonder, is this a RAM or harddisk issue?

I only have 1 gig of RAM, but i don't set any of my audio clips to run from the RAM so i dunno if that's the issue.

Or is a harddisk issue? My set is on my laptop's internal drive, which also of course has ableton on it.

So i wondering if i should increase my RAM or get an external harddisk to run my set from...

Cheers for any help!

fuckrapsputin · Post by **fuckrapsputin** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:28 am

when your comp starts to shit itself at the 30 mins what is the cpu meter reading in the top right corner i think it is?

that should tell you if it is an issue with the hardware not being able to hack the rock

popoff · Post by **popoff** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:38 am

You should check also the HDD response time (right upper corner of Live window - ther is a sqared button with D: if it flashes, i.e. HDD is late with with reading the samples or something like this). In that case You may turn the audio clips to be stored in RAM.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:44 pm

Definitely load your clips into RAM (there is a button in the clip view for this). Also - check your decoding cache size in Preferences. If you are using .mp3s in your set, this will quickly fill up...

Ozias Leduc · Post by **Ozias Leduc** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:07 am

thanks dudes, yeah i think it is a disk issue for sure

i am curious, if i only have 1 gig of RAM, but 2 gig of samples, will i run into trouble if i load all the clips into RAM ?

twistandshout · Post by **twistandshout** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:11 am

popoff wrote:You should check also the HDD response time (right upper corner of Live window - ther is a sqared button with D: if it flashes, i.e. HDD is late with with reading the samples or something like this). In that case You may turn the audio clips to be stored in RAM.

How do you do this?