Use VSTs, not AU!

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Stromkraft
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Use VSTs, not AU!

Post by Stromkraft » Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:57 am

As Urs from U-he suggest here to you lot on Macs Ableton Live 10.0.2: Please use VST, not AU! with performance issues, heed this old but for some reason still current convention to prefer the use of VSTs in Ableton Live and not AUs. At least make sure you've tried VSTs only when you run into performance issues.

Personally, I delete or don't even install the AU versions, unless I got no other choice.

I don't really see the technical reason for these issues, but hopefully the people at Ableton do. I do believe one reason I commonly do not have massive performance issues when others do, is I've adhered to this convention for many years now.

Thanks to cskracer for the link!
Make some music!

Stromkraft
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Re: Use VSTs, not AU!

Post by Stromkraft » Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:37 pm

Bump
Make some music!

EnjoyRC
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Re: Use VSTs, not AU!

Post by EnjoyRC » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:27 am

Same here...
MacBook Pro (MacOS 13.0.1) i9 Processor, 32gb RAM, 4tb SSD
(STUDIO I/O) MOTU UltraLite mk5 (w/ADA8200), (LIVE I/O) Behringer X Air XR18
Ableton Live Suite 11 (Live performances), Studio One 5 (Studio Stem Creation)

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