Hi - my first post and I hope it's it the right part (didn't seem to mesh with the gear section's postings).
MBP, Ableton Live, Novation nio2|4, Launchpad, MicroKontrol and BCR2000 are my tools.
When I just do straight DJing (as opposed to original stuff performed from Ableton), I use Live as the decks, looping, etc and send two stereo pairs out to a DJ mixer. I drag files from the library into Ableton as I need them, then delete them once they're played out. When I am performing this way, I only have the MBP, the nio and an external HDD.
I'm going to be playing some gigs in Japan in a few weeks and I just wanted to take my little USB drive. I am currently running an external bus powered drive that came from my old G3 iBook (RIP) which has all my tracks on it for DJing.
When I drag tracks in sometimes, and they're loading Ableton will skip audio. The beat will continue but the track presently playing will drop out and then pick up as though someone had just randomly hit the mute button.
I am trying to determine which of the following it is :
- Drive is too under powered (probably only 3200rpm drive given the old iBook it came from)
- USB 2.0 is not fast enough for audio (I think is crap - works fine when running a whole bunch of clips)
- Drive is somehow spinning down and then starting up again glitches the audio (how do I avoid this then?)
- Ableton can't handle dragging in a full 7 minute 320kbps mp3 whilst 1 single other file is playing (think this is not possible)
I am trying to avoid :
- Buying another 2.5" drive for bus power usb2.0 case (7200RPM/16mb cache)
- Taking an external FW800 or USB2.0 drive and the weight and additional power bricks and plug adaptors they require (although I will if I have to)
Thoughts?
I've looked everywhere on the web without luck, so I thought it was time to register for the DJTT forums after my months of enjoying the blog...
Thanks in advance.
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