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Hey,

I'm finding Live really hard to work with and I don't know what else to do but post on here for help.

Here's the deal... I'm pretty sure I have the right stuff to record with:

Intel Core Duo E4500 2.20GHZ Processor
3GB RAM
Vista 32 Bit OS
500GB Hard Drive
Toneport UX1
Cole Clark Fat Lady AC2
Ableton Live 6

It's a brand new computer (which I bought to do some recording) but I am still having problems. Here are my problems;

1. CPU gets really high (up to 90%) leads to problems within Live

2. I get this weird computer buzzing martix style sound when I 'm recording into Live (sometimes) which messes up my recorded parts

3. When I try to record over a guitar loop that I have already recorded prior. The new part I'm reccording isn't in time with the old one. But, when I'm recording it along with the original it sounds perfectly in time. This doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes it stays in time but then slips out the more I listen to it when looping.


Point 3 is the most annoying because I can't put together layers as they never sound together. I've made sure monitoring is set to off, which it tells you to do if you're recording guitar into Live.

My setup is simple.

Guitar > Toneport > Computer > Gearbox (toneport's sounds program) > Live

Am I really doing something that wrong in order to get these problems?

Other info:
- I have closed every other program whilst running live but I still get the weird buzzing computer sound

Please let me know if you need anymore information and I will provide it.

Thanks in advance!

Dan

try increasing the size of your audio buffers under
prefs/latency/buffersize

turning off dual cpu support.

also it might be a problem with your audio interface using a bus that is being shared by other periferals.