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1) Average CPU meter reading: 52% Peak reading: 56%
2) iBook G4
3) OSX 10.3.7
4) 1.33mhz
5) 786 mb 333mhz DDR RAM
6) Internal sound
7) 4200rpm internal drive

Ugh! When, oh when, will Live be optimized for Mac's!?!?!

Just a cheap (<$900) little laptop from Best Buy. Note that Machinate is running in that range on his laptop as well. Yours seems to be in the same range, no? It's the Mac guys that seem to be seeing super high CPU utilization. Ugh! When are the Abe's going to streamline their coding for Mac's!????!?

Funny...I just PM'd Machinate about this very thing, and then I saw this thread. I too experience VERY high CPU hits when playing his .als file; average of 60% and as high as 72% at times on Live's CPU meter!!! 8O I'm running it on a G4 iBook 1.33 w/ 786 mb's of RAM; I thought that would be plenty p...

Mad props goes to the Ableton crew for the way they handled the beta testing. I am absolutely in love with the way they listen to their users!

I can't say much about the Audiophile, but I've been using the M-Audio 410 for about 8 months now and it's been absolutely flawless. I know the older drivers had issues, but luckily M-Audio released new drivers for OSX right after I bought it, so I didn't go through any bad driver issues. I've used ...

There is a scrub feature in 5 (and it can be manipulated with only the trackpad and mouse button). I wish I were versed enough in Live to sit and explain here how to use it, but the tutorials on the new features in 5 do a much better job. Check there...

I've been using an M-audio 410 for about 9 months now; both at home and in clubs. I really have been impressed with the ease of use and quality of sound. I use it in conjunction with Traktor Dj right now, so i can't speak for how well it works with Live (just barely bought my copy!). Another reason ...

I used this exact setup for a LivePA last friday and it worked perfectly... I have an 800mhz Powerbook, running 10.3.7. I ran all of the outputs as mono into a Mackie 1402 mixer... I had even at one point setup some routing to go back into the 410 and then out, thus creating a "master" mi...

Anyone out there using the M-audio firwire 410 w/ Live 4 on a Mac? How are your results?

What about the same combo on Live 5? Any of you beta testers out there using this combo? If so, what is your experience?

whoah. they must have up'd the price between the time you clicked the link and i posted it. my piano guy just got Live 4 from GC for $299 by showing them that site. dag. It's all good though, I just found another site that is offering it up for $329..close enough! And I'm still searching to see if ...

buy it now for sure. Novamusik has Live 4 for $299 http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx?type=Search&keyword=live now, you can either buy it there for $299. or print that page and take it to your local Guitar Center and have them match that price. just do it BEFORE the Live 5 release (in a few w...

buy it now for sure. Novamusik has Live 4 for $299 http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx?type=Search&keyword=live now, you can either buy it there for $299. or print that page and take it to your local Guitar Center and have them match that price. just do it BEFORE the Live 5 release (in a few w...

Ableton Live 5 is capable of being a spectacular DAW. but remember, its not like other DAWs and it never will be. Cubase, Logic, DP, ProTools all have huge similarities between them. Live fits into a niche that the other products gloss over, and its all about immediacy. Session View = Workflow = Re...

Machinesworking wrote:Simpler is not in any way comparable to to the EXS, and the FX are much better as well. You pay $129 plus $399 for Operator compared to $299 for the synths in Logic.

I'm confused here. Simpler comes with Live. It's Operator that runs $129. Did you mean to put Operator there and not Simpler?

For instance in some respects Logic Express with FM7 is a better choice than Live 5 with Operator, but you won't be hearing many people here say that beyond me. I think if you have a fast computer, and work well with a few soft synths, then Live is a better choice. I do for the most part, maybe 4-7...