How solid is Live8 for you?

[outershpongolia]

unless you opened any files into Live 8.1 and saved them....then you cannot go back

Yeah you'd have to make a seperate folder for live 8, and copy your live 7 stuff in there.

That way you're not messing with anything. BUT if you make a bunch of changes in 8 and it does end up having problems you'd have to go back to your old 7 sets which might be outdated?.. just don't open your old sets in there and overwrite them, that would be silly

[c-Row]

Hm, I had some dirty crashes and hangups. Mostly when dropping in devices or clips or channels from the browser into already big sets.

I second this. I'm on a new 27" iMac (SL), so it shouldn't be a performance issue...

[diogo_semedo]

Live 8 likes to bang my CPU. What can I say? On some projects, while stopped, Live is simply using 30-50 % CPU.

[Scaper7]

Thanks for the replies..... I've considered the option of separate installs but for the mo' I'm quite a happy 7 user.. good and solid, gets the job done nicely. Just don't have the time to beta test 8... would prefer to install the software when it's actually working as solidly as 7.

The features look good in the promos .....

[zumba]

i wish i had waited longer to install 8... once you have it you want to use it for all the cool new stuff.... but... i have lost sooo much time waiting for the spinning ball to stop or relaunching live or my soundcard.... if i were you i would wait until the version promised to fix all the bugs is released.

[Scaper7]

.... if i were you i would wait until the version promised to fix all the bugs is released.

Yes .... I will definitely be waiting.

I paid for Live8 over a year ago and I'm still waiting ... I'm subsequently underwhelmed by all the 'amazing & astounding' announcements about future developments. A rock solid, working version of Live8 would impress me a lot more ....

[looprication]

I hate to say it, but I'm really disappointed in Live 8 so far. And I just bought a new computer in October 2009. Live 8 crashes all the time, when I close the program I always have to go into Windows task manager to kill the process.

FWIW, I've been using live since version 6, all Native Instruments plugins, and never had major crashing issues before "upgrading" to Live 8.

Thank GOD I recently purchased Propellerheads Record. Sucks for Native Instruments, but until Live gets its shit together I'm afraid it's just a creativity killer for me

Very sad, because I wrote 80% of my last album in Live 7 + NI plugins. I had almost abandoned Reason until I got Record, now I'm about ready to ditch Live, which sucks, because I love it.

If Ableton doesn't fix this permanently and soon, Live 8 is going to go down as the Vista of Ableton.

Cheers,

-ix

[outershpongolia]

Live 8 is going to go down as the Vista of Ableton.

Oh Em Gee.

[H20nly]

Once, I asked Live 8 to hold my sack...

It didn't even pinch it.

[chrom]

I started trying to work with Live 8 at 8.0.3 but had many crashes (incl crashing the whole pc) after some few hours with the first minor updates. So I often then returned to Live 7 & rebuilt my songs. I think, since Live 8.0.9 it is more stable, but sometimes Live still crashes (incl crashing the whole pc) & there are still bugs.

I appeared to be a guinea pig.

[Mr-Bit]

I voted some issues due to my W764 setup

I'm trying to get 8.1.1 fully working with W764pro but have come across a problem, if I focus on another window and wait approx 5-10 seconds then try and bring live back into focus it becomes non responsive for a while (this program is not responding in the window title bar) and I cant use the gui. So far I have set visual effects to best performance, processor scheduling to background services and turned all power saving functions off(that I could find) but it still happens. I'm new to W7 is there any more tweeks i can try?

XPPro sp3 on the other hand is smooth sailing

[okk]

Live 8.1.1 makes me strongly consider going back to Logic, (seems very stable with the same plugins). I have never had so many crashes in a program before. I know there is a issue with AU plugs but even with a session using only VSTs I have to use my left hand only to keep pressing CMD-S. This is on a clean and fresh 10.5.8 install on both a Mac Pro 8 core and Macbook pro core duo 2.

I have talked with support and they can´t really help me.

[The Big Q T]

8.1.1 is constantly crashing!!!! Been hanging now for 10 min Will be going back to 8.0.9

[Scaper7]

... makes me strongly consider going back to Logic...

... even though I'm a happy PC user for 15 years I'd consider a Mac just to run Logic at this stage .... I had been optimistic that Ableton was going to provide an interesting and stable platform my sequencing/programming needs into the future ... but since Live8, I find myself wondering ...

[liquidcool]

Running 8.0.9 on a Macbook Pro - pretty stable really.

Only had issues when I went to 8.1.0, so reverted back.