Live8 is working well for you? no crashes? post your setup!

[superistic]

This post has rekindled my interest in version 8 - tried the 8.1.1 demo today and immediately found the "choosing vst parameters" really handy - i like the way you can save and export for 30 days as well.
If the upgrade from 7 to 8 was €99 i would buy it right now, €149 is just that bit too much for me.

[romanh]

no probs her

live 8.09
winXp sp3
opteron 170 oc 2800Hz
Board: epox
Ram: 2 gig
soundcard: terratec phase 28
500GB WDC + 250GB samsung

30-40 tracks projects

[superistic]

Finally gave in and upgraded , probably tempting fate but stable so far for me (my setup is in the performance test thread)

[swishniak]

Macbook Pro (4 gigs) version right before they went unibody
Motu Ultralite mk111
too many to list
24 tracks, 5-6 returns.

Crashes on 8: handful

same thing for me. maybe a bit more crashy than 7, but still solid.

[!STiTCH!]

Figured I'd weigh in on this one, I see all the whining about crashes/bugs and I have not had one issue.

I use -
Toshiba Satellite Laptop
-2.8ghz Intel
-2gb Ram
-250gb HD
Ableton Suite 8.1.0
Max4Live
Behringer BCD-2000 for Audio (to hell with you haters, this thing works a charm)
APC 40
Korg NanoKontrol, NanoPad, NanoKey
Redline 112db VSTs
BBE Sonic Sweet Pack
RP SubBoomBass
PSP Vintage Warmer 1.0
NI Massive

Not one crash, not one freeze up, and typically working with 8 or more "tracks", hundreds of clips as I cut all my songs up into cue points (I started with Traktor).

Thats my $0.02

[3phase]

same thing for me. maybe a bit more crashy than 7, but still solid.

maybe only people with absolutly NO = zero = 0,00000 % crashes should post here?
otherwise one cant take the positive statements serious anymore

[Poster]

same thing for me. maybe a bit more crashy than 7, but still solid.

maybe only people with absolutly NO = zero = 0,00000 % crashes should post here?
otherwise one cant take the positive statements serious anymore

zero crashes here..

[Piplodocus]

I had a load of crashing a while back, but haven't had it in ages. Don't know what version was crashing, but I'm on 8.1.3 (I think) and that's solid for me at the mo.

Used to get an occasional dropout (about 1 per hour set) that seemed untraceable when I used to run our old live backing set that had all the songs in one set (about 80 tracks, though not all playing at the same time).

3GHz C2D processor
DFI Bloodiron motherboard
4GB 800MHz RAM
2x Samsung HDDs (audio on one Abe/OS on other)
Mac OSX
MOTU 828mkIII

[Khazul]

Using Live 8.1.3 which is the best version yet for me. I wont say it is flawless, but certain the best version yet.

Current computer is a self build:
Gigabyte GA-X58a-UD3R with 6GB 1600Mhz memory, intel i7/930 (Quad core + HT - 8 virtual cores) running at 4GHz.
WD velocity raptor (300GB 10,000 RPM, SATA 2 to onboard SATA 2 port) for OS and applications.
WD caviar (1TB 7,200 RPM, SATA 3 to onboard SATA 3 port) for live library, sample libraries, live projects, CDs etc.
Using on-board firewire port (TI chipset) seems perfectly reliable with Yamaha mLan, excepting the usual funand games with yamaha mlan that I have experience in several differnt PCs.
Using on-board USB to Virus TI and NI Audio Kontrol 1, perfecty reliable.
Also has UAD PCI card, creative X-Fi pci-express for windows sounds, media etc, graphics is a saphire vapor-x radeon 5770.
Using both Win XP+SP3 and Win 7/64.

All good so far (figures crossed) with exception for usual issues with yamaha mlan and creative x-fi - I think the drivers for both are less than perfect. Virus TI, Audio Kontrol are great though. About the only oddity so far is the UAD plugins seem to using way way more cpu than expected which kind of defeats the purpose of having a DSP card perhaps time to give in and get the pci-express version, or ditch it and find some decent alternatives.

[JEpic]

I'll bite. Excuse the lack of details, most of my equipment is pretty antiquated.

Hardware:
Mobo: Asus M2N series AM2 Socket
CPU: AMD Athlon 64X2 4800+ 2.51 GHz
RAM: 2 sticks of 1GB DDR2 (believe 800 speed) Kingston
System HD: WD 160GB 7200 RPM SATA partitioned roughly 100GB(Be Lazy OS)/50GB(Make Music OS)
Storage HD: Seagate 500GB 7200RPM SATA drive for samples, librarys and music.
Video: ATI Radeon HD4350
FW Card: Cheap DYNEX (best buys house brand) FW400 card
NO CD/DVD Drive - I only hook it up when I need it, because it blows.
AUDIO I/O: M-AUdio Prophire 2626
Controllers: AKAI MPD16 & E-MU X-Board 25

Software:
OS: Windows XP32 SP3
DAW: Ableton Live Suite 8.1
DAE: Sony Sound Forge 9.0 & Recycle 2.1

Lots of free VST's but primarily use
TAL U-NO62
TAL ELektro 2
TAL Bassline
Image Line Parametric EQ2
Image Line Love Philter
Image Line Delay Bank
Audio Damage EOS
Audio Damage ADverb

notes on how I use Ableton:
- Studio use exclusively
- 4 audio tracks, 6 MIDI Tracks, 4 Sends (Never more, never delete any)
- Each Audio and MIDI Track has a "Channel Strip" made up of a Effect Rack [Redux->Saturator->EQ3->Compressor]
- Work almost exclusively in Session view.
- Upgraded to Live 8 for the Launchpad, however I was unsatisfied with the User modes and took it back. May repurchase and use with Katapult, or drop the cash for a Block.