Very annoying latency problem

Sensive · Post by **Sensive** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:35 am

Since a couple of days I'm experiencing very bad latency problems and audio dropouts. I have tried many things recommended by ableton, but still no solution..

Here are my specifications:
* Ableton Live 9
* ASUS N56J laptop, Windows 8.1 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.39 GHz, 6GB RAM, 64-bit

I have frozen and flattened every channel in the project file and the dropouts still occur,

???

Post by **Patriek** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:37 pm

Tried adjusting the buffer settings yet?

Sensive · Post by **Sensive** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:00 pm

Yep, the buffer sample sizes are optimized down to a point where the cracks/distortion is eliminated (in the test tone). I have also installed the ASIO4all driver without result.

Post by **Lost to the Void** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:16 pm

No soundcard?

Sensive · Post by **Sensive** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:27 pm

Lost to the Void wrote:No soundcard?

As in an external soundcard? Nope, it's an onboard 'soundcard'.

Post by **Lost to the Void** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:37 pm

There`s your problem, it`s not ableton.

on board soundcards are prone to all sorts of trouble, I`d go to a forum for your motherbaord manufacturer and see if there are any threads about soundcard problems relating to latency, asio, music production.

Essentially, get yourself a proper soundcard.

Post by **Lost to the Void** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:39 pm

Also check the hard drive indicator in ableton, could be your hard drive is not fast enough

Dust Layer · Post by **Dust Layer** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:09 pm

Maybe give a try to asio4all.

Dust Layer · Post by **Dust Layer** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:10 pm

www.asio4all.com

Post by **Lost to the Void** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:36 pm

Sensive wrote:Yep, the buffer sample sizes are optimized down to a point where the cracks/distortion is eliminated (in the test tone). I have also installed the ASIO4all driver without result.

Dust Layer wrote:Maybe give a try to asio4all.

Post by **Planar** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:16 pm

You've not given very much information. If it's not the soundcard:

Is is affecting playback only, or offline render as well?
Does this happen if you create a brand new test Ableton set?
Have you installed anything new over the past week (audio related or not)?
Have you checked task manager to see if there is some rogue processes eating up CPU/RAM?
Do you have any other apps open or active (check the area around the clock).
Do you have anti virus running? Does it still do it if you turn it off.
Have you tried disconnecting your network cable and or disabling the wireless card.

nomadjames · Post by **nomadjames** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:22 pm

asio4all does have a latency adjustment panel...Try that? I have always had decent results with it when I had to use it.

Mattias · Post by **Mattias** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:04 pm

Internal sound card change.

Buy a an external sound interface and proceed being a happy person!

Post by **Críoch** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:29 pm

Sorry.. This thread has only just appeared on my screen

nomadjames · Post by **nomadjames** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:47 pm

While I agree that you definitely are going to want a decent soundcard, I have never had asio4all not work when needed in a pinch. take a screen shot of your setting from the asio4all control panel?

Post by **Patriek** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:54 am

All this hate vs the internal soundcard! I have one, and i never have any problems with it. Haters will be haters!

surface · Post by **surface** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:41 pm

Patriek wrote:All this hate vs the internal soundcard! I have one, and i never have any problems with it. Haters will be haters!

If it works out that's great, but they're not designed/manufactured to the high spec needed for audio production.
I remember the first time I got a soundcard, an emu 0404 (i think, ancient now) and the difference was immense. It had some really decent spec converters for the time but it didn't work at all with certain chipsets and so I had to upgrade my soundcard after my old laptop died ..

nomadjames · Post by **nomadjames** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:35 pm

I had an 0404 too. I also had a little PCI? card for a laptop one. I forget the manufacturer now. Back when laptops had that big ass card slot in them...LOL.

surface · Post by **surface** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:26 pm

nomadjames wrote:I had an 0404 too. I also had a little PCI? card for a laptop one. I forget the manufacturer now. Back when laptops had that big ass card slot in them...LOL.

Yep, same one, real old, for laptops with the express or network card slot (?)! They came with software designed to mimic old emu samplers, the most unintuitive software I've ever used!! ..

nomadjames · Post by **nomadjames** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 7:35 pm

I never did the get Sampler to work right, and that was why I bought it...Wanted those Z-plane filters

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