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Per, What do you mean by "Instant Defrag"? --Josh Per Boysen wrote: > On 27 aug 2006, at 04.16, dm wrote: > >> >> 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? > > > 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 > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > http://www.myspace.com/looproom > > > > > >