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Alesis Multimix 16 USB 2.0 & Ableton - Gradually Garbled Sound - What Else to Try??
Greetings all!
I joined this forum a while ago, but I haven't been doing much recording lately (due to the following issue). Any help is greatly appreciated--I don't know what else I can try.
I know this is a lot in a post, but I wanted to be thorough describing the situation. I'm desperate to get a working system again!
I've had this problem for over a year now. Keep tinkering and can't fix it. I can't record because of this. Ready to pull my hair out.
2 Problems:
1) When recording or just monitoring through my Alesis Multimix 16 USB 2.0 into Ableton Live or Reason, I will eventually start to get garbled sound (as if buffer is too low).
2) If that doesn't happen, depending on settings, I get latency of about 1.5s using ASIO4all.
The Gear/Setup:
Alesis Multimix 16 USB 2.0
- 8 xlr Mics in
- 4 Stereo Line-Level in
- USB 2.0 to PC
Ableton Live 9
Reason 5
ASUS U43F
- Windows 7 Home Premium x64, SP1 (Slimmed-down clean install on separate partition, only used for music studio)
- Intel i5, M480 @ 2.67GHz
- 6GB RAM
- 25GB/100GB Free on HDD Partition.
What I've Tried:
FYI, the Multimix 16 supports all 16 tracks (plus mixdown) into computer separately (hence its initial appeal).
I'm not showing any maxing out in my Resource Monitor. From my standpoint, it doesn't seem to be CPU maxing out, hard drive not keeping up reading/writing, USB hub and/or throughput insufficiency. I'm pretty adept, but not really advanced with this kind of thing, so maybe it is one of these things? Anyway:
1) I've tried running In / Out through the Multimix. The result is usually latency of about 1.5s.
Video of the symptoms:
[video]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmgALUm4SYeUF80NXFpbURieW8/view?usp=sharing[/video]
2) I've tried running In from the Multimix and Out via computer sound card. 1/8" Headphone out from computer into Ch 15/16 of Multimix, and use that channel to monitor recordings from Ableton. The result is usually a clean signal, but in a matter of seconds/maybe 1 minute, the sound starts to become garbled and unusable. Resetting ASIO4all or changing any devices' buffer amount cleans up the signal, but then it becomes garbled again.
Video of the symptoms: (I reset the ASIO driver about half-way through)
[video]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmgALUm4SYeZ3B4cXFNZkwzbVk/view?usp=sharing[/video]
Conclusions?
I would really like to make this setup work. I had a Tascam US-1800, and I never had problems like this. But I got the Alesis so I could use it in the studio and on stage. I don't know if I need a better computer, better mixer, or some other component, but like I said: on a budget, I'd like to get this setup working
Thanks for all insight; I'm really stumped and would love some help.
Greetings all!
I joined this forum a while ago, but I haven't been doing much recording lately (due to the following issue). Any help is greatly appreciated--I don't know what else I can try.
I know this is a lot in a post, but I wanted to be thorough describing the situation. I'm desperate to get a working system again!
I've had this problem for over a year now. Keep tinkering and can't fix it. I can't record because of this. Ready to pull my hair out.
2 Problems:
1) When recording or just monitoring through my Alesis Multimix 16 USB 2.0 into Ableton Live or Reason, I will eventually start to get garbled sound (as if buffer is too low).
2) If that doesn't happen, depending on settings, I get latency of about 1.5s using ASIO4all.
The Gear/Setup:
Alesis Multimix 16 USB 2.0
- 8 xlr Mics in
- 4 Stereo Line-Level in
- USB 2.0 to PC
Ableton Live 9
Reason 5
ASUS U43F
- Windows 7 Home Premium x64, SP1 (Slimmed-down clean install on separate partition, only used for music studio)
- Intel i5, M480 @ 2.67GHz
- 6GB RAM
- 25GB/100GB Free on HDD Partition.
What I've Tried:
FYI, the Multimix 16 supports all 16 tracks (plus mixdown) into computer separately (hence its initial appeal).
I'm not showing any maxing out in my Resource Monitor. From my standpoint, it doesn't seem to be CPU maxing out, hard drive not keeping up reading/writing, USB hub and/or throughput insufficiency. I'm pretty adept, but not really advanced with this kind of thing, so maybe it is one of these things? Anyway:
1) I've tried running In / Out through the Multimix. The result is usually latency of about 1.5s.
Video of the symptoms:
[video]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmgALUm4SYeUF80NXFpbURieW8/view?usp=sharing[/video]
2) I've tried running In from the Multimix and Out via computer sound card. 1/8" Headphone out from computer into Ch 15/16 of Multimix, and use that channel to monitor recordings from Ableton. The result is usually a clean signal, but in a matter of seconds/maybe 1 minute, the sound starts to become garbled and unusable. Resetting ASIO4all or changing any devices' buffer amount cleans up the signal, but then it becomes garbled again.
Video of the symptoms: (I reset the ASIO driver about half-way through)
[video]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmgALUm4SYeZ3B4cXFNZkwzbVk/view?usp=sharing[/video]
Conclusions?
I would really like to make this setup work. I had a Tascam US-1800, and I never had problems like this. But I got the Alesis so I could use it in the studio and on stage. I don't know if I need a better computer, better mixer, or some other component, but like I said: on a budget, I'd like to get this setup working
Thanks for all insight; I'm really stumped and would love some help.
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