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Oh my...yes, I had a similar problem once running ProTools. I'm all wireless at home, and so when I went to the venue my wirless system was searching endlessly for an access point...apparently distracted the system enough to product all sorts of errors and crashes. Turned the wirless antenna off and everything was smooth. ...but more importantly, you were using Mobius and some other VSTs. What VST host were you using to run them? Did you just run Mobius as your last VST plugin before heading off to the output of your soundcard or audio device? Kris -----Original Message----- From: David Trenkel [mailto:improv@peak.org] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:49 AM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: The dangers of live laptop looping... I've been taking my laptop, a P4 1.8G IBM ThinkPad, out to gigs with my band for the last few months, mostly using it to trigger some pre-recorded loops in Ableton Live. Lately, I've decided I wanted to do some live looping of my bass as well, so I put together a Live Set that has Ellotronix XL, Mobius, Supatrigger, and a few Pluggo plugs as a live looping/manipulation/devastation-station. Worked up a looping solo that would be the intro to one of our new tunes, actually a cover of an Ethiopian pop/jazz tune from the 70's. Anyway, played with it a lot in the studio, took it to the gig Friday night, and all was cool, other than accidentally nudging the knob assigned to the "Silence" function in Supertrigger, setting it to a very high value and briefly causing some severe dropouts. Otherwise, totally cool, got a great response, the band dug it, etc... So, anyway, I take it to the gig Saturday, and all works fine during soundcheck, I even demo the looping setup for a friend who is a student in the U of Oregon electronic music program. We start our first set, and the tune before the the tune with my bass solo has me triggering some tabla loops from the Live. Since the laptop wasn't used for since soundcheck, it had gone to sleep, and Live never works, at least on this machine, when waking up from sleep. So I spend the rest of the tune desperately trying to reboot the computer, while playing bass, which kind of takes both hands. The tune is in E, so I can pedal on an open E string while I force-quit Live and reboot. The computer is just coming back up when we finish the tune. I signal the trumpet player to kill some time while I get setup, and wait for what seems like an eternity while Live loads the Set. I believe that VST's made in Synth Edit, like Ellotronix, take a while longer to load, at least on this machine. When it seems like Tim just can't fill any more time without telling a joke, and trust me, you never want that to happen onstage, and the set STILL isn't loaded, I start my solo. Sometime into the solo, the set finally wakes up, and I see signal going into Live, and signal coming out on the meters, but, no sound. So I'm desperatley trying to play a solo, tweak my mixer and MIDI controller, and about to give up, when, all of a sudden, the last bit I've played in the solo comes out booming, So I pull the volume down to a reasonable level, wrap up the solo, start the tune, and, later in the tune, take a raging fuzz-bass solo to clear up some of the built-up frustration. Moral of the story? Turn off the freaking Sleep function, dummy!