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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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