did I heck! log files eh? hmm. not sure what they do.
Where is your machine "spiking" Alex? What are you doing to make it
use
loads of CPU?
god knows. it's 100% fine with the internal sound card (with fairly
high
latency admittedly). put the indigo in and all of a sudden it's heavy
on
the cpu for anything - running 5 tracks at the same time with 3
plugins on
each and its extremely close to tipping over.
Start the machine with it in and ensure you have the latest drivers,
there have been CPU problems with the Echo but these went away a long
time ago, latest ones are 6.1.1 and there also another fix for crappy
controllers so you may what to look at that. The card should hardly us
any CPU. When you say 3 plug-ins on each, do you mean the ones that
came with Live or one's you've added? If you have Norton installed turn
it off, Auto-protect causes a lot of problems as does Auto-update.
Another biggy is Wireless connection software, again turn it off.
Defrag the hard disk as well.
Set the Echo to 256 or 512 samples, this should give you a latency of
around 23ms. This setting depends on what you have on your machine but
we find 512 reduces the risk.
Make sure your using the Asio drivers rather than DirectX.
http://www.echoaudio.com/Downloads/Drivers.php
Also check your laptop doesn't have PCMCIA controller made by ENE.
http://www.echoaudio.com/Downloads/Other.php
obviously this isn't a great deal at all and this shouldn't be
happening.
I'm relatively sure its the card though and not ableton or my computer?
Something doesn't sound right here if you'll excuse the pun. Do all the
above and report back.
p.s. do the trick with the audio anyway, but. what does a pre-amp do?
will
it make it louder? I always seem to be close to the bone regards audio
signal, looking for ways to improve.
Gives you more head room if the person before you has everything set to
11 and has been playing +12db records. We go into a 8 track mixer, with
earth-loop condenser attached.
p.p.s. how was friday in sunny manchester?
Great, got in front of a Police chase on the way in and the directed to
Oxford Street instead of Road, had a great gig tho, well up for it
crowd.
Hope that helps
Martin
