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peeps,

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.

I bet Vista fucks it up!

I would recommend to download and install a demo of the latest Ableton Versions (at least 7, better Suite .

If that still does not work you can at least rule out that it is up to the old version of ableton.

yeah, good idea.

Least i can rule it out. Cheers

I doubt it'll be the issue, but give it a go.

BTW has anyone been using windows 7 beta with ableton, how's that running?

M-Audio vista drivers suck balls.
Try asio4all.

Vista also sucks balls, windows 7 won't be much better for audio, and M-audio will have to write new drivers. They can't get vista drivers right, so what chance do they have with Win 7?

Dual boot XP (dual boot it with XP IMHO) you don't have to format your vista partition if you don't want to, you can shrink it.

Use the audio optimized XP from here:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=30162

Job's a good'un

if you turn up the latency the problem goes away

then your problem is the latency