Ableton Forum

hmmm... I always thought Live assigns each track to a certain core...

Thats what I thought.....Im gonna try some different instruments/fx to see if i get different results...i used the ableton performance test file most recently...Same thing, only 4 cores are used up to a certain point as i ...

How did you test it? Do you have a project with at least 8 tracks and use an instrument that causes heavy CPU utilisation on each track?

Sorry for the late response (summer school and jobs have kept me off the laptop)....Everything is actually cool with this processor. At first it seems only 4 of ...

Just built a new system (amd fx-8120 8core 3.1ghz, 8gb 1600 ddr3, asus m5a97 evo mobo...) After thinking that I was not getting the performance I expected from this cpu, I saw in windows task manager that Live would only use 4 cores. I know amd's bulldozer architecture is different, but its somewhat ...

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 22%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model? Custom built PC
3) Operating System? Win xp32 sp3
4) Ableton Live version? 8.2
5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? AMD Athlon II x4 635 2.9ghz (Overclocked at 3.3ghz)
6) Amount of Ram? 4gb
7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it ...