Anyone else seeing unusual disk activity in Live Version 5?

Agent47 · Post by **Agent47** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:18 pm

Yeah I was mixing last night and the audio dropped for about 2-3 seconds- the signal was still going as evidenced by the levels but no audio...NOT cool!

Live seems much more unstable than 4. I am not too sure about using 5 for gigs yet.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:19 pm

It sounds like an Impulse problem. I've had 20+ audio clips running simultaneously on my Mac without glitching or the red disk overload light, but I don't use Impulse and am using a 10,000 RPM SATA drive.

Here's hoping the Abes are working extra-hard on that 5.0.2 everyone is waiting for...

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:47 pm

Nah, it's not an impulse problem, happens to me when I don't even have Impulse on a track and am just triggering audio files of any length.

Sometimes I can play back 20+ tracks with no issues, other times I can't even launch one clip without the stuttering. As far as I can tell it's completely random as well, the same clip might trigger perfectly the first few times I launch it, and then stutter the next time. It's not clip, scene, plug in, or Mac/PC dependant at all.

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:50 pm

I'm using a pair of 300Gb 7200rpm SATA drives, with audio files running off the secondary drive (not the system drive)... there shouldn't be red-lights and glitches happening when the rest of the app is at a complete standstill (transport stopped, and nothing loaded into tracks).....

And in my case, it isn't only Impulse-related (see my last post).... it happened just previewing an Operator-based Live Clip..... which is weird, cos that doesn't involve "audio files" at all.... it was just loading an Operator and a few fx....

Something is definitely wrong with the way Live 5 is doing its disk access..... it's most obvious to me when using the new Live Clip format. Those do have to load a whole cluster of stuff (fx, instruments, samples, clips, etc.) at once...

peace,
tribalogical

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:48 am

I can't say I'm glad it's not just me, but at least I'm not the only one with these problems!

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:08 am

So the red D flashes but for some its causing audible problems and others it's not?

D K · Post by **D K** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:34 am

same problem here- flashing d with no audible problems.
using 1.5 mac g4 12" w/1.25gig ram.
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Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:09 am

What do you all have your plug in buffer set to? I was playing with this some more last night, and it appears the plug in buffer size may have something to do with this....

Emissary · Post by **Emissary** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:58 am

i get the flashin D loads aswell, but no audio problems. Never had it once on Live 4.

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:22 pm

Tarekith wrote:What do you all have your plug in buffer set to? I was playing with this some more last night, and it appears the plug in buffer size may have something to do with this....

I haven't touched this setting at all... I left it at the default setting of 128.

What have you discovered so far? (the manual is not terribly clear about this one)

peace,
tribalogical

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:47 am

Seems like lower settings results in this occuring much less often, but I haven't had a chance yet to explore this more fully.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:19 am

Do you guys have delay compensation checked? My system seems to be fine as long as I leave this checked. So far tonight anyway....

kineticUk · Post by **kineticUk** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:10 am

I just had the same problem with the flashing D yesterday.
In my case it was only when I was using impulse that I actually noticed it.
I could not tell whether it was audible.
Normal default settings for buffer etc
Anybody know what ableton say about this?
No previous problems at all with live 4