So I bought a new Imac 27 about 4 weeks ago having come from a PC background for years. However I have found the sound playback quality in Ableton to contain interferacance, glitches and pops.
When I use the reverb effect and very long effect there is lots of distortion and crackling. This is the same with a beat repeat etc
Sometimes the bass of a loop pinks and sounds glitchy rather than smooth, at other times it sounds flawless.
CPU is working at max 65% when I have 8 audio channels playing with effects on each channel. I expected there to be no glitches in play back as the Imac Spec is quite good (i5 4gb ram).
The latency is approx 9 sec and error compensation 0. The samples I have set to arround 200, I am not sure whether this is any good, however there seems to be no improvement when I adjust the values.
I am using a saphire pro 14 firewire sound card and a vestax vcm 600 midi controller and also novation launchpad.
Would being connected to the internet via wifi effect performance? Should I have certain programs closed whilst using ableton (I often have itunes open too)
I expected playback to be flawless, however at the momment it is omparable to the same setup I had with my 2gb windows pc.
Any advice / help would be much appreciated.
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