Playing sunday and Ableton has started glitching & stutt

[kristofason]

Hello i'm playing my first ableton set sunday night,and all of a sudden ableton has started overloading on cpu whenever i move tracks about on each channel,i'm worried coz this is something i need to do as im not intending on planning the set and its for 2 hours...its gonna sound horrible on the big system if i start moving stuff around...
also whenever i tweak the filter for each channel,it sounds sh!t!!
ive had a read through the manual but nothin seems to sort it out,am i overlooking something??

Cheers,any advice would be diamond

[S.D.L]

Give me some more info.

-What version of ableton are you on?
-What kind of system (specs) do you have?
-How many vst's are you using?
-How many audio tracks are you using?
-How many clips are you using?

[clubfoot]

but there's no reason why you'd need to move tracks around on the fly. can't you arrange things so they're all in place to start with?

[eOx]

have you optimized your systhem/winxp?!?

perhaps its something in the background, screensaver, antivir or so...

[kristofason]

its live 7

my spec is a dual core 1.5gig advent laptop 2 gig ram XP
all set to classic look and no screensaver

Ive got deck1 and deck2,each with an E8,then theres a send channel with a filter delay on it...

Like i say,i didnt really want to plan much so i may need to move stuff around on the fly from deck 1 to deck 2

I did a system restore which sorted then problem but within a few days it was back to its normal slow self...

[thomasjaldemark]

something with latency/soundcard drivers?

[4am]

yes latency is a good point to check. try to set a higher value for latency in your soundcard preferences and see if it changes something...

[Magnus Molin]

And it is VERY important to have good and strong drivers for the soundcard, check for updates, if possible.