10.6 Snow Leopard Ableton Performance

mnmlmike · **Joined:** Wed May 20, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 90

I haven't done much testing yet but I was working on a session last night that took up about
70-80% of my CPU in Ableton. I upgraded to 10.6 and now that same session is about 30-35% and everything
is running fine.

Not too shabby if you ask me

cids · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:56 pm

Sounds good!

Inofaith · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:36 am

..wow that sounds good.

(Is snow leopard even out yet??)

mnmlmike · **Joined:** Wed May 20, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 90

In the past few hours that I've been rocking it, it's pretty great over here. Everything is just
quick and zippy. iTunes opens in the time of one dock bounce (if that makes sense)

and ummm.... err.... no..... it's not "technically" out.

outershpongolia · **Joined:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:40 am **Posts:** 1892

[quote="mnmlmike"iTunes opens in the time of one dock bounce (if that makes sense) [/quote]

Don't even own a Mac and I understand that one.. Sounds pretty sweet.

KrisM · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:01 pm

that sounds very sexy.

Come on, September... :mrgreen:

zalo · **Joined:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:10 pm **Posts:** 958

30 dollars?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

do they think i have a money tree or something?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

outershpongolia · **Joined:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:40 am **Posts:** 1892

They probably think you have a money bush, or maybe just money shrubs?

Veiss · **Joined:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:15 am **Posts:** 33

30$ isn't much for what you get. The -8gb HD space is nice too. Really looking forward to the live performance though. My first gen macbook suuuuucks. I don't trust it one bit to play live anymore... :roll:

outershpongolia · **Joined:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:40 am **Posts:** 1892

Veiss wrote:

The -8gb HD space is nice too.

How does that work it literally just deletes and replaces certain parts of the OS?

mnmlmike · **Joined:** Wed May 20, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 90

I think the main thing is that it's trimming the fat by not having any PPC support in your computer.

guille · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:09 am

This also could explain the reduced sizes:

http://www.pipian.com/hacking/explainin ... sizes.html

cids · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:14 am

Hi Mnmlmike, would be great if you could post some more Live benchmarks... are you using Live 8?

Thanks

Casper

mnmlmike · **Joined:** Wed May 20, 2009 5:42 pm **Posts:** 90

Sadly I'm rocking 7 still unless anyone wants to hook up a copy of 8

I'll do Tarekiths test in the AM when I wake up.

Pasha · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:11 pm

mnmlmike wrote:

I haven't done much testing yet but I was working on a session last night that took up about
70-80% of my CPU in Ableton. I upgraded to 10.6 and now that same session is about 30-35% and everything
is running fine.

Not too shabby if you ask me

Can you detail the kind of machine you have?
From this (http://www.osnews.com/story/22009/Snow_ ... by_Default) article
it seems that Snow Leopard doesn't boot in 64 bit mode by default so the performance boost should come from
grand central...

- Best
- Pasha