low plugin count live 8 on mac osx. WHY?

[happy123]

Yep.. I think Ableton is just crap at utilizing cores. (Im a signed producer by the way and know what Im doing). I personally at the moment can't understand how people use this program on a professional level. i will try the various things mentioned in this thread. I just pray that logic 10 (or logic studio 2) nicks some of abletons workflow ideas.. then I'll be well happy - they will be nailing total elastic audio in the next update. Back to logic for me.

For all those who are trying to decide for the mac if logic or ableton will be best. I most certainly recommend logic by a long shot. You can produce tunes on it without it collapsing after around 10 tracks with a few plugins applied to them. (I don't even have to freeze in logic with 40 + tracks heavily loaded with plugins!) I feel my moneys been wasted on this potentially good program. cheers all.

mac 8 core + 8gig ram.

Might be a good idea to Demo software before you buy it. Every signed producer knows that.

I did demo it on my mac, yet I never wrote a track using the program before I bought it. I just messed around with 3-4 tracks of audio and checked out the various plugins and instruments (drum rack, simpler etc...). I demo'd just to get a vibe for the workflow - I liked the vibe. I just took it for a fact that their would be no issues regarding cpu usage. Its 2011, not 2005. Protools has no issues, logic has no issues etc...

Sorry if I seemed to offend people here by just wanting advise, some even seem to be spending time trying to discredit myself.. Thankyou to those who have put some genuine input in to try and help.

[beats me]

It really is quite that Live makes it so tempting and easy to start tossing more plugs into a set only to have it get all $&@(#$&$% at a relatively low track count and next thing you know you can't even open the set anymore because whatever you tossed in there crashes Live instantly upon (re)opening.

Just sayin'

[William]

Yep.. I think Ableton is just crap at utilizing cores. (Im a signed producer by the way and know what Im doing). I personally at the moment can't understand how people use this program on a professional level. i will try the various things mentioned in this thread. I just pray that logic 10 (or logic studio 2) nicks some of abletons workflow ideas.. then I'll be well happy - they will be nailing total elastic audio in the next update. Back to logic for me.

For all those who are trying to decide for the mac if logic or ableton will be best. I most certainly recommend logic by a long shot. You can produce tunes on it without it collapsing after around 10 tracks with a few plugins applied to them. (I don't even have to freeze in logic with 40 + tracks heavily loaded with plugins!) I feel my moneys been wasted on this potentially good program. cheers all.

mac 8 core + 8gig ram.

Might be a good idea to Demo software before you buy it. Every signed producer knows that.

I did demo it on my mac, yet I never wrote a track using the program before I bought it. I just messed around with 3-4 tracks of audio and checked out the various plugins and instruments (drum rack, simpler etc...). I demo'd just to get a vibe for the workflow - I liked the vibe. I just took it for a fact that their would be no issues regarding cpu usage. Its 2011, not 2005. Protools has no issues, logic has no issues etc...

Sorry if I seemed to offend people here by just wanting advise, some even seem to be spending time trying to discredit myself.. Thankyou to those who have put some genuine input in to try and help.

Yep...that happens a lot here. Lots of douche bags on this forum.

[necho]

It really is quite that Live makes it so tempting and easy to start tossing more plugs into a set only to have it get all $&@(#$&$% at a relatively low track count and next thing you know you can't even open the set anymore because whatever you tossed in there crashes Live instantly upon (re)opening.

Just sayin'

Which is why I now use Reaper and Maschine.