Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute

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Rainstorm
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Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute

Post by Rainstorm » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:13 pm

Ableton Live 11 Suite. 11.0.10.

Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute until it goes down to zero - even though no sound is being produced no meter bars have any volume, the song is not being played.

Song has 3 tracks i made, i tried all combinations from plaing only 1, 2 or 3 at the same time (using solo/mute unchecking it until colour dissapears), get same result.

If i stop and immediately play a number of times the cpu does not rise like a crescendo (go even higher and hiher) as id fear it would.

Rainstorm
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Re: Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute

Post by Rainstorm » Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:03 pm

Any solutions on this? I know the audio engine must still be running and my laptop is quite slow, but is this an actual problem/bug or working as intended?

I just checked again by playing an ableton live 11 suite project, it seems after troubleshooting settings for another problem this problem is better but i did not play a very complex project. No only around 5+ seconds does the cpu meter in ableton show stuck on around 5%. It may be that i need to play a more complex project as I did before, I will check another time and report back if this is still a problem. I can manage with 5 seconds of extra cpu no problem.

See my posts in the first 2 pages of these threads, the troubleshooting I did for my problem in below threads has helped my problem in this thread...
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=69336
viewtopic.php?p=825181

Rainstorm
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Re: Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute

Post by Rainstorm » Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:10 pm

I just tested another project, it wasnt the same one as before which I cant recall. But this project I tested had 3-4 tracks and cpu meter was 2-4%, with 3% average the whole way through. Also on finishing playing the cpu meter almost instantly went back down to 0% within a few seconds.

Problem seems solved at least for that project. I am definately noticing an massive improvement in cpu performance on the meter in my projects, it has become much much lower now, since I did the other problems fixes in above post, where i basically changed some settings.

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Re: Stopped Play of song but cpu meter in ableton stays at around 14% for up to half a minute

Post by chapelier fou » Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:16 am

Apart from the CPU meter showing this, the real question is : is there any problem ?
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