CPU load too Low! :-)

ducktail · Post by **ducktail** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:11 pm

OK, I have 14 simultaneous tracks, RMIV, Muon TAo Pro, Albino, and over 30 audio plugins including 2 really nice VST reverbs. My CPU meter never goes over 5%. I'm tempted to just keep firing in reverbs to see how hard it is to make this thing choke.

I had a much harder CPU hit in Live 3, and this was without VSTis. Is this possible??

Duck

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:22 am

I gather that's a 17" Toshiba

My latest track has 2 NNXT's (all 24 bit samples) , 1 Maelstrom, 3 simplers , 2 impulses , FM7 ,
Bojo's organ 1 ,DaHornet and Motion 2.8 , Crystal a Multiband Compressor on Master 2 H/Q verbs (non ableton ones I might add) on sends and 10 stereo audio tracks + 27 insert effects .... chuggin' out a fabulous 43-58% total CPU usage with around 6 Live midi effects also ....
Ya gotta love it

.....
That's a lot of eq's ,compressor's and some pretty whacked out effects devices also .

jprost · Post by **jprost** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:45 am

i've had the same experience with Live 4. i have a song with 60 tracks and 12 internally routed sub-outs. this in turn is re-wired to reason which is running several redrums, plenty of malstroms, and a 14x2 mixer for every sub out. as for vst effects...well i never feel comfortable till i've put something on every track

. all this and I dont go over 27% cpu!

i will point out, however, that in order to get such a significant performance boost I had to up the processor side bus speed from 200mhz to 201mhz (yes you read right 201mhz). For some reason the 1mhz meant everything to my motherboard.

later...
jason...

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:44 pm

oh yeah?...well i can check my email AND play an mp3 at the same time on my ibook 900.

k

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:41 pm

lmao

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:31 pm

hey how do you up your cpu i'd like to try out a couple of points, my lappy is a 900mhz centrino , its' a 'panasonic w2 lets note', if that matters
i am pc literate so if it's a some quick instructions let me know.

ducktail · Post by **ducktail** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:45 pm

How do you guys run the Maelstroms? Rewired?

Duck

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:05 am

Ducktail PM me for how to best rewire Reason's Maelstrom synths with Live 4.0 mate ok

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jasefos · Post by **jasefos** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:59 am

That Toshiba laptop sounds like the bomb ....

I'll keep it in mind ...

Cheers

jASeFOs

negative · Post by **negative** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:54 am

great, lookz like toshiba really loves ableton live

too bad my toshiba notebook is having some kind of problems w/ its touchpad freezing ... anybody else ever experienced this: your cursor just freezezs for a few short seconds? happens to me on my toshiba every few minutes ... and sometimes it wont "let go" of things (ie when holding down the mousebutton to twist a knob, the cursor will still be grabbing the knob when i let go of mousebutton) ...

warabunga · Post by **warabunga** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:02 am

thanks negative!

I was about to get frustrated. thank god, macs are slow, but DAMN reliable!

ejectorset · Post by **ejectorset** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:02 pm

jprost wrote:i've had the same experience with Live 4. i have a song with 60 tracks and 12 internally routed sub-outs. this in turn is re-wired to reason which is running several redrums, plenty of malstroms, and a 14x2 mixer for every sub out. as for vst effects...well i never feel comfortable till i've put something on every track . all this and I dont go over 27% cpu! i will point out, however, that in order to get such a significant performance boost I had to up the processor side bus speed from 200mhz to 201mhz (yes you read right 201mhz). For some reason the 1mhz meant everything to my motherboard.

later...
jason...

I have to ask, so you are saying you have at some point in your live set all 60 tracks playing back at the exact same time and not over 27% cpu usage?