Re: Bad, bad audio drop-outs in Live 7

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

That sounds completely different than my experience. I would get a  
pop or dropout once in a while. Not nearly as often.
On Jun 29, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Per Boysen wrote:

> Abletons forum has been down for twelve hours now, so I have not been
> able to check with the guys over ther. Anyway, I noticed (from posts
> here) that I did not describe the issue properly so I'd like to add
> that it only happens when playing live audio through Live 7.x.
>
> It doesn't matter if Live's sequencer is running or not and it doesn't
> matter if I'm looping in a plug-in or not. The bug hits when audio
> from the input is running through the software to be played back from
> an output.
>
> I have been using Live since version three, in both OS X and Windows
> XP, and I have not seen this bug until versio 7.0. When 7.0.2 had the
> same bug I stopped using Live because I knew a new version was on the
> way - but now when 7.0.2 is here and still stops every tenth second
> there must be something wrong with it! We have had an OS X upgrade
> during this time, so I guess it must be related to Live.
>
> What happens is that every tenth second the audio just stops for a
> second. It's just like unplugging the chord, but no "pop" or so. Just
> a blank "nothing", followed by the CPU jumping up to 111 percent from
> the usual 5 percent. (Screensaver, sleep mode, bluetooth and airport
> all turned off).
>
> I'll post this to Ableton's bug report area as soon as they get the
> forum running again.
>
> -- 
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
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>