I've been on the ableton and m-audio forums, but to no avail. Thought i'd try you guys. This seems to be a common issue, so i'm hoping that one of you may have tried something that worked to resolve the problems.
Problem:
Ableton live 5.02
working with Vista 32 bit sp1, with a M-audio black box is, quite possibly, the most annoying set-up for audio anyone could possibly dream of owning. Drop-outs, crackles and cpu overloading with few tracks(10 audio, 2 midi) and no effects. My set up worked just fine on my older machine running XP. Current spec.
Compaq presario cq60 notebook
AMD-turion dual core rm 72 -- 2.10ghz
4gb ram
Windows Vista 32 bit sp1
Ableton live 5.02
M-audio -- BlaCK BOX
Things i've already tried
1. been on m-audio, ableton, hp forums
2. Updated all my drivers.
3. Downloaded ASIO
4. Optimized PC for audio eg high performance power plan, set paging file for virtual memeory to 'none', set processor scheduling to background services,
5. checked no other devices are using same IRQ
6. Tried Different usB ports, usb cables
7. Disabled internal soundcard when running blackbox.
8. Disabled CPU munchers like synpatics and HP advisor
9. Increased all buffer sizes.
10. installed USB foliter drivers from HP.
Should i now...
1.smoke crack and forget about it
2. run a dual boot with XP. Don't really want to do this with windows 7 out soon.
3. find any drivers/updates. I've pretty much tried eveything. Let meknow if you know any different.
4. Stop being a tight-arse and update Live. will that even solve the problem?
%. or try something else? an ideas?
I don't think there's an emoticon combining sheer desperation and frustration.
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