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Ableton Live mix problems
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| tartanxtra |
I have recently used Ableton for preparing promo mixes. I find using the arrabgement view very useful to do this. To save burning stuff to cd's only for the mix I though I would try something diffent.
I have tried to do a mix playing the mix with the arrangement view through my mixer to record but when I reach the 4th song onwards, when the next track comes in the track playing stammer slightly!!
This is very annoying and have no idea whats causing it!
Anybody any ideas? |
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| Dojomaster26 |
It sounds like Ableton is starting to lag at that 4th song and onwards. How much RAM do you have, and are you loading every song of your mix at once? You may want to close the 1st and 2nd tracks after mixing them out, to free up space for the others.
I'm sure someone that knows Ableton well can provide a more specific answer, but to me it sounds like the program in general doesn't have the resources (ie RAM) to run as smoothly as you would like. |
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| tartanxtra |
Thanks for the reply mate.
I would tend to agree with you. I did a 2hr mix but cut it down to 60 mins, but it still happened!
The annoying thing is it did work doing it before. I even tried clearing alot of stuff to my external drive to free up some space.
I have 22gig free from a 60 gig hard drive now and I have 512MB RAM. |
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| Zild |
| I would try to get at least another gig of ram to throw in your computer if not two. |
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| tartanxtra |
| Thanks mate. Think thats what im needing aswell. You think I should go 2 1024? |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
I would try to get at least another gig of ram to throw in your computer if not two. |
+1 |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by tartanxtra
Thanks mate. Think thats what im needing aswell. You think I should go 2 1024? |
That should do it. |
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| Inertia |
i don't get it. you're using ableton to mix, but recording it to audio?
just record your arrangement, and have ableton export it. |
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| tartanxtra |
| Yeh, i play it through the mixer, so I can also use my pioneer efx. I think it sounds better that way. |
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| Ray_Chappell |
One way to know for sure is to watch the % scale and red button in the top right corner. Watch to see if you are getting relatively high in percentage of CPU used - 50, 60, 70, 80, 90... and watch for the red square in the top right. It will generally flash on when you start to experience cpu "power" problems.
A couple things you can do are adjust the audio settings. You can adjust these to compensate for a slower computer by bumping up buffers. To do that, go to the audio tab - turn the test tone on (towards the bottom). Then click the "Hardware" setting button (I'm assuming you are using an interface with ASIO drivers?). Then, adjust the latency to the lowest possible setting that will play without the tone interrupting or crackling. To be safe, you may just jack it up to the highest setting (40 and 20 milliseconds) to see if you still experience problems.
Also, have you tweaked your operating system to improve audio results. I use Ableton, but it is a hog on the computer (I just upgraded to quadcore and 4 gigs of ram to do what I want with it) - so you've got to watch everything if you are using a regular daily use computer...That and get a faster computer or more ram. :) |
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