I’m getting the same problem – Ableton Live 8 routed into Max/Msp via Soundflower, sometimes the audio degrades, sometime it doesn’t.

The only way to fix it I’ve found is to flick the audio off/on (it’s like it resets the buffer or something) the problem is it cause a glitch, this is really annoying because I want to use it Live in the coming week.

Is there a way to route audio into Max/Msp from Ableton any other way?

Does anyone know why Soundflower is doing this?? Are Cycling aware of it??

Ah! I’m glad (sort of) to hear about others with this issue.
I’m Soundflowering (that’s a verb, right?) Mainstage into Max and getting the distorted audio once in a while, too. My solution has always been a quick on/off of the audio in Max. I usually gig with another guy, so temporary silences aren’t usually a total problem since he’s usually making some other noise, though it’s still unfortunate.
I always assumed it was a problem with Mainstage since, even in it’s present, much improved condition, it still seems like it needs to bake in the oven a little longer before it’s done.

I’ve got the same problem, it doesn’t matter what i route into what. After a couple of minutes sound gets slowly more and more distorted and slowly turns normal again this takes about a minute.

Did anyone ever get a solution to this problem? It happens with my system all the time, for no reason that I know of. It sounds like a sudden drop in sample rate. I can fix it for a time by switching the vector size from 64 to 32 and back again. The cpu never goes above 20% and the memory usage hovers around 50%. Also, my fan Never kicks on for anything else, but it goes nuts while I’m using Max. Here is a screen shot of my settings. Any ideas?

Macbook Pro
8 gigs
2.9 single i7
Core Audio

Cheers!