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Dmxis w/Ableton Live - works only for 5min

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:36 pm
by hopo
Everything works perfectly in my studio environment, every day. I can plug and play, can shut down my macbook and start Ableton and iot's just fine.
Had a gig yesterday with the same equipment, even with the same cables but after approx. 5min ableton didn't send anything out to the dmixis box.
I could select directly in the dmxis plugin any preset but the lights didn't react.
Today I set up everything again in my studio and everything works again with no issues.
I guess that could be an power or voltage issue.
Do you have any similar experience with that?

MacBook Pro 2014
OS 10.11.6
Ableton Live 10

Re: Dmxis w/Ableton Live - works only for 5min

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:03 pm
by ortoPilot
I don't know if it's related, but I have to keep the plugin window open in Ableton for all my lights to work properly.

Re: Dmxis w/Ableton Live - works only for 5min

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:22 am
by ojacques
Try moving your DMXIS to Ableton's master track. I believe this is in the DMXIS documentation: Ableton shuts down tracks VSTs if they don't output audio (which dmxis doesn't) to preserve CPU. Solution is to have DMXIS on the master track.

Hope this helps.