Live getting slow in some areas HELP!

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ANDRSN
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Live getting slow in some areas HELP!

Post by ANDRSN » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:07 pm

Hi all Certain processes are really slowing down in live, particularly loading up a and opening the different coloured collections folders amongst other things. I don't think it is CPU strain, projects are not getting audio glitches and cpu rarely goes over 30%. I am trying to minimise how much stuff I have in my "places" area. Where should I store my folders of samples? Still need to be easy to search and preview.
Any other tips for speeding things up? I'm on a few years old imac im sure that's part of the problem but other applications like Lightroom are still running smoothly I don't use many plugins ,most of my sounds are from hardware synths etc.
Someone suggested adding an SSD. If I was to get an SSD, and re-intall live on it as well as all my samples would this help?
I know a new iMac would fix all but I really reckon mine has life left in it and Id rather spend money on fun stuff like Synths.
Computers are not my strong suit sorry for my lack of knowledge here.
Cheers, hope everyone is good and making sounds

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