Re: A looping fork in the road. Which way do I go?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Are you sure you're not running the system at too high CPU load? If
that isn't the cause there are the two classic troubleshooting
methods:

1) Start the application and rebuild the system from scratch.
2) Take away plugins one after the other until the absence of the
issue hints at the weak spot.

A bit inconvenient though when the glitch manifests so rarely.

I had a glitch in a previous setup, but that was a choice I had made
to save CPU cycles. I was running Mobius AU on the main stereo output
and monitoring through the looper. But today I put the looper on a
parallel bus/aux, do not monitor through the looper and keep a global
signal path from my live audio input going directly to the audio
output. That's also good for minizing latency, but with my previous
laptop such a "noise free" routing would bog down the CPU into the
audio drop-out risk zone.

Per



On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, todd reynolds <toddreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Per... for the record, I do exactly that.  Sometimes glitches will 
>occur
> during that time, sometimes not,  but it seems then to happen reliably 
>in
> performance. I had one person suggest recently that the problem might be
> power, as one thing which is happening during performance is the 
>addition to
> lights,  though you can be sure my power isn't on a dimmer!  lol.
> Well, I don't think it's that.  Still working on it.
> T.
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > i've recently had four shows disturbed by audio glitches, and I can't
>> > seem
>> > to fix it whatsoever.
>>
>>
>> Try to "rehearse your show". I mean, just play for as long time as the
>> show is planned and make sure your rig doesn't mess up.