i've got 8 tracks running in ableton live, all the tracks are frozen, and the cpu usage meter is holding steady at about 10%, yet the "hard disk overload indicator" light keeps flashing. i dont hear a difference, but i am assumng that if it is dropping audio that i might not necessarily hear it.
anyone have any idea what is going on?
i read the manual, and took their suggestions about freezing tracks, and enabling the RAM for the few bits of audio there are.
any ideas?
something i am missing? besides a brain?
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- KVRAF
- 1821 posts since 26 Nov, 2005 from Where silence and chaos meet.
when tracks are frozen, they are then converted into 32 bits wav. files, and read straight away from the hard drive, hence the flashy indicator. 8 tracks of audio shouldn't be a problem with any computer from this century, and the flashy thingy is an activity indicator, not a sign of overload! you should be fine.
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- KVRian
- 595 posts since 6 Mar, 2005 from Italy
I don't agree.Chopper wrote:when tracks are frozen, they are then converted into 32 bits wav. files, and read straight away from the hard drive, hence the flashy indicator. 8 tracks of audio shouldn't be a problem with any computer from this century, and the flashy thingy is an activity indicator, not a sign of overload! you should be fine.
In Ableton Live the Disk Overload indicator alwaysflashes when the disk was unable to read or write audio quickly enough.
Remember that if the RAM Mode switch is on, Live is loading the audio referenced by the clip into the computer's memory rather than reading it from disk in real time.
This, actually, isn't true because of the virtual memory. In fact a computer also uses the hard disk for swapping out RAM contents that have not been used in a while, so the more clips you are running in RAM Mode, the higher the likelihood for them to be swapped out back in the hard disk. So RAM mode doesn't always help.
Is your HD fragmented (expecially in the area where the frozen .wav files are stored) and/or has it a slow RPM value?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 127 posts since 1 Jan, 2008 from amuricah
thanks for the replies.
the hard drive is 250gb 72000 rpm
the disk is not fragmented at all.
i tried disabling the RAM in the audio, but it didnt make a difference.
now i have started to notice it on just about every project i have going. some more than others, but it has never been audible.
i dont know.
the hard drive is 250gb 72000 rpm
the disk is not fragmented at all.
i tried disabling the RAM in the audio, but it didnt make a difference.
now i have started to notice it on just about every project i have going. some more than others, but it has never been audible.
i dont know.
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- KVRian
- 595 posts since 6 Mar, 2005 from Italy
The speed is good enough, and as you say there's no fragmentation...
Maybe something related to the virtual memory management?
How much ram has your system, and how much there is when Live is running?
just an experiment: try to temporarily disable virtual memory and run a project in ram mode...
Maybe something related to the virtual memory management?
How much ram has your system, and how much there is when Live is running?
just an experiment: try to temporarily disable virtual memory and run a project in ram mode...
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