Ableton Forum

bra10 wrote:Are you up-to-date with your audio nterface drivers? I got a lot of cpu-peaks with my NI-Interface (Komplete Audio 6) which where caused by an old driver. After updating it runs really smoooooth.

Yes. I'm using a UR22 interface and immediately after initial setup, I grabbed the latest drivers.

I ran the DPC latency monitor twice over the weekend and it never got out of green status. However, the usage is still high. I've been manually stopping the index process since it never stops running. Still doesn't do much to drop CPU usage though. Here's a screenshot of a project from today. 3 ...

Would it help if I posted my list of processes running while Ableton is eating up that CPU usage?

it may not be the indexer causing the problem though. there are lots of things that could cause the issues that you are experiencing.

is this a vanilla install of Windows? did the new machine come with Windows pre-installed or did you install it yourself? there are lots of guides on the net about ...

Live goes through all the directories that you have on your Live Browser and kinda takes note of each audio/Live-related file so you'll easily be able to do searches in the Love browser, and so you can quickly browse for things.

If you have any directories in the Live browser that are massive, it ...

I always run this script, before starting anything audio related, that closes all unnecessary windows services. I find everything runs smoother after I have executed it. Give that a try maybe.

https://themixtrain.wordpress.com/resources/djtt-pro-audio-optimizer/

It looks like it disabled ...

Tarekith wrote:Yes.

Sorry for the delay. I just fired up Ableton again and I do have 2 services related to it in my Task Manager: Ableton Live 9 Standard.exe and Ableton Index.exe. So that Index service never needs to run?

granted wrote:Are you using the audio that is built into the laptop or are you using a separate audio interface?

It's a desktop (I should have specified). I've tried with both the built-in audio driver and my interface (Steinberg UR22). The usage is the same (only the latency changed when switching drivers).

I just installed Live 9 Standard last night and did a test run of the software. I love it but I had two concerns after about 2 hours of testing:

1. CPU meter - it was constantly at 20-35% with only 1 or 2 Ableton instruments loaded.

2. Disk overload - nearly every time I loaded a new instrument ...

I just installed Live 9 Standard last night and did a test run of the software. I love it but I had two concerns after about 2 hours of testing:

1. CPU meter - it was constantly at 20-35% with only 1 or 2 Ableton instruments loaded.

2. Disk overload - nearly every time I loaded a new instrument ...

my WHOLE audio library including samples, apps, sounds, .dll's... is on external (s), only abes and a few others on main C drive. My C is an SSD. 2 cnts

Fantastic, thank you! I ended up putting the .dll files in a VST directory on my C drive but all the content libraries are on the external so I ...

Do you have the VST and .dll files on your main OS drive and the instruments themselves on the external, or do you have everything on the external?

I rebuilt my PC for music production and will be installing both Ableton 9 and Komplete 10.

I was about to install Kontakt when I got a message stating: "you should select the folder that your specific host sequencer uses to store its VST plug-ins."

It looks like the default path for Ableton is ...

I have a piano part that I want to play, and I have a chord that I'm staggering while recording (playing the notes of the chord slightly off-set, rather than the chord all at once). How can I set up Ableton to pick up the notes I'm playing slightly before beat 1 of the loop?