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Changing the quality setting in Massive seemed to make a difference, as well as freezing tracks I wasn't working with. I'll try out the FTP with the ASIO4All driver and see how that works, too, though I get the feeling it might just be the FTP not being compatible with my laptop. Thanks for all of t...

I did try ending any background processes that I knew about and disabling my network; there was barely anything else using my CPU apart from Live at the time.

And perfect, I'll start freezing tracks that I'm not currently working on to save up some more CPU then. Thanks again.

Alrighty, thanks for the tips. That should definitely help me cut down the CPU load...it probably would've been a good idea regardless since my effects chains are a total mess most of the time. I didn't realize midi used a lot of CPU too. Pretty much everything I do is in midi. Is freezing the track...

Oh, the 4 instances of Ozone was me splitting the master suite into its individual plugins (reverb, compression, exciter, imager). That wasn't 4 instances of the full mastering suite lol. Would it be less CPU intensive to just use the mastering suite? I wasn't sure which would be better on the CPU, ...

2 reverbs per session...that could quite possibly be my mistake then since I use reverb a lot. =P Guess it's time to start being a bit more conservative with my effects then. Thanks again for the help. What makes you think that? Pretty vintage GUI? Have you ever tried? And notice a difference? I jus...

Wow, I always thought MP3 would be easier on the CPU since it's a smaller file. Thanks for that tip. I do use a lot of third party EQ and compression, so it could be that. When I'm mixing a single track, how big is the difference quality-wise between Live's native EQ and, say, FabFilter Pro-Q (which...

Just curious if you tried these things 1) Does 32-Bit version of Live go up to 150% CPU? 2) Have you tried doubling your buffer size? 3) Have you tried another driver besides ASIO4ALL etc 4) Have you tried a dedicated USB interface 5) Have you tried disabling/enabling Multicore support in Live 9 op...

I doubt it would be the OS or the Live installation, unless Live just doesn't get along well with 64-bit Win7, because I just finished re-installing the whole OS 4 or 5 days ago (damn automatically detected driver update totally destroyed my OS lol). That also means I just finished installing Live, ...

I'll go ahead and start with my computer specs just so that's out of the way. OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit CPU: Intel i7 3720QM (2.6GHz quad-core with turbo boost to 3.6GHZ and hyperthreading) RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600MHz HD: 480GB Intel 520 SSD GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 660M (I don't know if this matt...