Ableton Forum

I'm currently running ableton 7.03 with an m-audio delta 44 however I am starting to experience some drops and clicks as I add more and more tracks or use heavy sustain on certain instruments. I've ruled out CPU as it never hits over 40% - I am running a PC based studio and looking for the best ...

davec1: I use a virtual midi cable - here is the link http://www.hurchalla.com/Maple_driver.html
I stumbled across this when configuring wordbuilder

pabloaugustus: have you used a muse box in conjunction with live? if so any advice?

davec1: yes I am sure as when I open ableton and load a vst I have it configured to load the plugin independent from ableton yet still interface with the application via midi - ableton uses roughly 150MB of memory and (I'll use symphonic choir in this example) the VST chomps up 1.4GB of memory and ...

Silence: I have considered mac but unfortunately its not in my budget at the moment as I just bought a new car :)

bosonHavoc: how would I be able to control the vst's on a separate machine and still be able to access/control them from the primary machine? Is this something I would be able to do via ...

I run some pretty memory intensive vst's such as symphonic choirs/orch, quantum leap quantum leap colossus etc....some of these guys take up 1.2-1.5GB of memory alone for one sample loaded so I need as much memory as possible :) The good thing about the vst's is they run as a separate thread ...

darkcatt - thanks for the post! thats actually a good idea and I have been doing that as a band-aid to squeeze maybe one more vst out of the system but its still not enough for what I need - hmmm just thought of this idea....installing ableton under x64 and perhaps run each vst in compatibility mode ...

So here I am torn between the ability to use the full 4GB of memory I have on my box with an x64 bit windows platform and run into VST compatibility issues :cry: .....or.....run 32bit and only have access to 2GB of memory with all VST's working marvelously (except for the part where I run out of ...

I am trying to render out to my disk as a wav, and all goes well but it takes 20 minutes for the file to render, without ever taxing my cpu at all - any ideas of a setting I am not tweakin right?