Ableton 11 - Distortion with NI plugins?

paul1960

Ableton, distortion with Native instruments plugins?

When using NI sounds e.g. Kontakt, Maschine2, Komplete Kontrol as a stand alone products, they sound great! But when I use them with Ableton as a plugin there is loads of noise and distortion, popping, clicking, banging?

I am using the same hardware in both scenarios.

PC with icore 7 gen. Intel/MB gigabyte Z390 UD.

MS windows10/64.

Ableton 11.

Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Gen.2 for headphones

Anyone got any ideas please?

EvilDragon

You can absolutely install things on whichever drive in 99.9% of cases. C: vs D: doesn't really matter, and has nothing to do with this issue.

You should have ASIO selected!

EvilDragon

You shouldn't have installed or reinstalled anything, just set audio in Ableton to ASIO... You absolutely to NOT need to reformat!

paul1960

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/5949#Comment_5949

yes it was both ASIO and latency by having plugins on different drives, Now selected ASio and put plugins on the O/S active C:\ drive (where the apps. are located!), made a big difference to the sound!

Many thanks mate for your help!

much appreciated, take care!

paul1960

native instruments is on the "C:\" drive, whilst Ableton is on the "D:\" drive; (SSD). Does that cause an 'issue'?

EvilDragon

Drive letter makes no difference at all. OP, how do you have your Focusrite set up, and how do you have Preferences->Audio set up in Live?

DeepThumb

Just try what Mark Williams recommends in your Ableton Forum thread:

https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=244720

paul1960

Ableton: 48,000

input buffer 8192

output buffer 4096

focusrite:

48,000

buffer 512

EvilDragon

Hmmm yeah buffer is mismatched. How's that even possible? Or do you not have ASIO selected as audio driver?

paul1960

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/5943#Comment_5943

I don't have ASIO selected!

paul1960

I had read that apps and plugins should be on C:\ whilst libraries should be on separate drive "D:\" as well as projects etc.?

So mine is back to front! (lol) i.e. Ableton on "D" not libraries! Apparently can cause latency issues? i.e. all apps and plugins on same drive for best performance, and libraries elsewhere?

EvilDragon

You can absolutely install things on whichever drive in 99.9% of cases. C: vs D: doesn't really matter, and has nothing to do with this issue.

You should have ASIO selected!

paul1960

tried to install ableton on "C" but now ableton won't boot up and just freezes with major issues?

paul1960

I might have to reinstall everything from a re-formatted drive!

paul1960

not a quick fix!

paul1960

Oh well, off to bed!

EvilDragon

You shouldn't have installed or reinstalled anything, just set audio in Ableton to ASIO... You absolutely to NOT need to reformat!

paul1960

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/5949#Comment_5949

yes it was both ASIO and latency by having plugins on different drives, Now selected ASio and put plugins on the O/S active C:\ drive (where the apps. are located!), made a big difference to the sound!

Many thanks mate for your help!

much appreciated, take care!

paul1960

thanx 'dragon' for the ideas and suggestions!