LIVE 4 PERFORMANCE TEST

[Macrostructure]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)
23%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model
Laptop/Sony Vaio B1XP
3) Operating System
XPSP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed
Intel Pentium M 735 1.7GHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)
512Mb PC 2700 DDR SDRAM
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)
Echo Indigo DJ
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)
4200

That's great results on a 1.7ghz Centrino I must say.

I could have quoted 21% but there were occassional blips to 23% and I am an honest kinda guy Should have a result on the B3XP in two weeks, Pentium M 745 @ 1.8Ghz, I just had the B1XP on test. Shared graphics RAM too by the way , although only 74Mb of memory used by Live left plenty spare.

[bytheriver]

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 23 (19-22 most of the time)

2) Laptop/Desktop? Desktop, custom built.
3) Operating System Windows XP 32bit edition (for now)
4) CPU Make Model and Speed AMD 64 3000+
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram 512mb/ DDR 400
6) Soundcard- Standard for now
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed 7200rpm, 8 meg cache, SATA2

Built it to use the hyper transport of the new AMD 939 socket chips, and it flys

[DJ VAKIS]

Still dreaming about a G5 Powerbook that will do both...

Just wait 12 months and get a 4GHz dual-CPU Powerbook with Intel inside running OS X Leopard! The news is all very good, especially for those of us reliant on laptops.

Then why we sould buy Apple computers?i think is better to buy a pc with less money.If power books comes out with intel then why you have to spend money for an Apple?just get a pc less money better performans.

[hambone1]

You buy what you want.. it's a free world!

I used PCs for years before my day job forced me into Macs. I would never (never say never!) go back to PCs. The elegance, simplicity, stability and power of Tiger with Core Audio, MIDI and video make it work for me.

High-speed Intel will be the icing on the cake.

At the end of the day, it's just a box that does a job.

[LOFA]

Am I alone, or has anyone else noticed a particularly higher demand of cpu in Live 5 for operators?

I'm seeing 15-30% for each instance on my dual g5 2g PM. This is new, and really unnerving.

I was trying to figure out why one set was flipping up to 90+% and I discovered that one operator alone was draning about 45% of my cpu!

I hope this goes away!

[Myth Healer]

Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2Ghz / 1,000 RAM at 266mhz / XP professional

My performance was 46% on the cpu. I was suprised to see how low a performance I was getting out of my system.

[bytheriver]

Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2Ghz / 1,000 RAM at 266mhz / XP professional

My performance was 46% on the cpu. I was suprised to see how low a performance I was getting out of my system.

Sorry to say that sounds about right, my P4 2.43 peaks at 38 ish. The older P4 chips dont stand up very well against the newer intel and AMDs.

[puRe]

1) 19%
2) Apple Power Mac G5
3) OSX 10.4.2
4) 2x 2.7ghz
5) 2.5gb
6) Built-in/Digi002
7) S-ATA

[majestic]

Still dreaming about a G5 Powerbook that will do both...

Just wait 12 months and get a 4GHz dual-CPU Powerbook with Intel inside running OS X Leopard! The news is all very good, especially for those of us reliant on laptops.

Then why we sould buy Apple computers?i think is better to buy a pc with less money.If power books comes out with intel then why you have to spend money for an Apple?just get a pc less money better performans.

Because PCs won't be able to run OS X.

[AdamJay]

Am I alone, or has anyone else noticed a particularly higher demand of cpu in Live 5 for operators?

I'm seeing 15-30% for each instance on my dual g5 2g PM. This is new, and really unnerving.

I was trying to figure out why one set was flipping up to 90+% and I discovered that one operator alone was draning about 45% of my cpu!

I hope this goes away!

make sure the "spread" parameter is at 0%
its a pretty cpu heavy parameter for just a chorusing effect.

many times you can cut Operator CPU usage almost in half by turning the "spread" all the way down/off.

hope this helps.

BTW, Live 5 Performance Test coming sooooon!

[FaX-01]

BTW, Live 5 Performance Test coming sooooon!

Will you be able to do the Live 5 test with just the Demo Version AdamJay ?
If so I'd be interested to see what my Toshi pulls off this time.
I've tried the demo aaaarrrggggggghhhhhhhhh the torment that is Live 5 .
CPU use seems far more efficient than version 4 from what I can see.
Particularly with just audio + effects and a few Simplers.
Very much like what they've done with the Simpler also.
Beat Repeat placed after an Operator rythmic patch yields some great glitchy electro rythmic moments.
Gotta love Voxengo Recorder .
Though I wish I hadn't given into temptation .
A taste of honey is definately worse than none at all.
Some money for the honey would be even sweeter .

[DJRetard]

Why not use the Nine inch Nails track. Add a few plugs here and there. I think this would be a much closer to real life everyday studio situation type test.

Whatever happens with the live five test I would ike to see part of the test take in to account hard drive activity. Good idea no?. Well for PCs it is because everyone has all sorts of mother board configs, maybe some users are using scsi, one drive etc.

I also think the PC and Mac test shouldnt be in the same thread.


Just a thought.