No speed increase on new computer?

Xen Ochren · Post by **Xen Ochren** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:33 am

So... I've been using a 2008 macbook pro for the last 4 years, I spend a lot of time freezing tracks. Most of songs have 60 tracks ish.

Just borrowed my dads early 2012 macbook pro, (quad core i7 4gb ram) loaded up ableton and a track i'm working on that normally hits 90% on the cpu meter on my old pute. I was expecting dramatic improvement, but I still got audio crunching out bad, and heaps of lag while clicking around the screen.. click stop, wait 2 seconds, beach ball, track stops.

I don't know much about computers, is this just because the software is new to this particular computer? I was still hitting 70% on the cpu meter

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I just played it again through, and this time the meter didn't go above 45%

Also, in the past I've noticed I can write a project all week, and the cpu meter will be doing ok. Then i work on a dif project, return to the first one and the cpu meter is off the scale.

Whats actually going on here?
cheers all

savyurrecords · Post by **savyurrecords** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:09 pm

Do you use an external audio interface? They can help with the problem you are describing. At least in my world they do.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:35 pm

I also was kind of disappointed that my twice as fast mbp is only as twice as fast as my old macbook. still I am happy to be able to work with 10-15 midi tracks now. for liveperformance i render all of it to audio, though.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:01 pm

the bottleneck with computers is still RAM access.

you can add more cores to a machine but the bus to get to the RAM is still the same. a multi-core machine just lets to get more applications rolling, it doesn't mean they'll be faster. I felt a huge difference going from single to dual core. from dual core to 6 core I felt no difference except I could run Live (which felt the same but with lower latency) and more stuff in the background.

I don't know macs but I assume it's that kind of problem.

Hermanus · Post by **Hermanus** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:03 pm

raise up your overall BPM

seriously, your statement pushes me once more to stick with custom pc or good pc laptop.

Windows 7 is just a charm for audio once it's tweaked.
and you don't need a bachelor cursus to make it running cool for audio/midi use

nathannn · Post by **nathannn** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:16 pm

^ i dont think this has anything to do with mac/vs pc
this is happening because live is not 64 bit (read the post above yours).

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:29 pm

nathannn wrote:^ i dont think this has anything to do with mac/vs pc
this is happening because live is not 64 bit (read the post above yours).

face meets palm.

JBlongz · Post by **JBlongz** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:36 pm

If you use a lot of plugins, get Vienna Ensemble.

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