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Re: Live stumbling ...



Per,

What do you mean by "Instant Defrag"?

--Josh



Per Boysen wrote:
> On 27 aug 2006, at 04.16, dm wrote:
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>> OK, this is about to drive me nuts.
>>
>> I've been using ALive 5.2 for several months now and it's been a 
>> major improvement in my set-up.  There's been the usual trials with 
>> latency and learning to balance recourses.  All in all, I've been 
>> amazed at how smooth a transition it's been.
>>
>> And, now there's trouble.  Over the past couple of weeks, a major 
>> problem has developed.  While, playing Live will ..glitch.  Playback 
>> momentarily stops and then resumes off time.  Since 98.6% of what I 
>> do is 1) with set tempo percussion and 2) with other players who 
>> struggle to stay with a metronome, much less a looper, the end result 
>> is a massive stumble or at worse the always popular 'train-wreck' 
>> ending.
>>
>> At first it seemed to be random and unpredictable.  After a lot of 
>> search and research, it happens within a wide window near 10 minute 
>> intervals; as little as 9 & as much as 12, but by far most often at 
>> 10 minutes +/- 35 secs.  At first I thought another program was 
>> running in the background, so I clipped everything except audio 
>> drives and still it gliches.  I've been unsuccessful in finding 
>> anything that has changed in AL and I haven't loaded anything onto 
>> the laptop within a month.  I've checked for viruses, spy and malware 
>> with '0' results.   I've gone into the start-up registry listings and 
>> eliminated anything unnecessary.  And, I've implemented all of the 
>> tips listed at musicXP.com (yeah, I know.  it's a Win system)
>>
>> So, I am at this point completely stumped.  And, too frustrated for 
>> clarity.  With everything else off, it's got to be either in AL or 
>> the soundcard (using the internal audio with Stienberg's ASIO 
>> plug-in. It's not the best, but it's been working OK)
>>
>> Any thoughts, suggestions or relevant rebukes?
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> How about the hard drive you lay down audio to? Do you keep it 
> instantly defragged and not too filled up with stuff? That's crucial 
> when working audio on a Windows system, at least if your work include 
> a lot of audio files. If you are using the built-in drive (the one in  
> the lappy where also the OS and applications are installed) I would 
> guess that may be something to look into.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
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