Live 9 Crashing VENT

[saulstokes]

Ok, I need to vent. I was perfectly happy with Live 8. My system runs perfectly with it.

I got the email for upgrading and basically felt the pressure to update because of the limited price discount.

Live 9 has a lot of really cool additions and I really want to use it. However, it is severely unstable on my system. I'm not going to go into what equipment I have etc because my system runs perfectly on 8. Therefore, I can only come to the conclusion that 9 is the problem:

Locks up randomly when creating a new midi or audio tracks.
Locks up randomly when deleting midi or audio tracks.
Crashes hard! if doing the above with audio running
CRASHES ALL TO HELL if you open a song from LIVE 8
CRASHES when trying to open a group from LIVE 8
Loses sync with ASIO
Midi connection to my Studio controller drops altogether. I've never seen this before with any software

I tried to solve some of the issues over the weekend but it's constant. There's too many bug reports to send.

I'm staring at a frozen LIVE 9 Session right now. It's just sitting there all frozen.

I guess I'll go back to 8 and wait for a serious update....

[distaudio]

Give us some information on what your specs are.

Live or Suite?
Win or OSX?
Computer specs
What Live packs are you running?

Have you tried reinstalling?

[CancerRidden]

it's probably a user error or your computer because MiNe has not frozen at all once.

[Leon Tricker]

Yeah, I'm seeing random crashes and instability too.

My advice: Just keep filing crash reports, use Live 8 for critical work / live performance, and keep an eye out for updates.

Live 9 will get more stable in time; we all know from bitter experience that Ableton's 'point' releases are rarely without issues. Like you I upgraded straight away to get the discount, but I knew I wouldn't be able to use it properly for a few months!

[arafel]

Live 9 will get more stable in time; we all know from bitter experience that Ableton's 'point' releases are rarely without issues.

With this in mind.. I'll wait on 9 till its got a few points over zero and is actually stable, and useable. I have no inclination to Beta test software. It works or no cash for Abes.

[saulstokes]

I have no doubt that it will end up being very stable eventually but for now I will move back to 8 while watching for stability improvements.

[agent314]

Did you do a completely new install or install over a previous version?
Do you have the latest build for Max/Max for Live installed?
Have you submitted your crash logs and/or opened a support ticket?

That sounds like a unique situation - I have heard much in praise of 9's stability over 8, and very little of the reverse

Although by the same token, your stable 8 system may also have been contrary to prevailing wisdom and experience of the rest of the Live user base

[CFM]

Mines not crashed once! It did lock up a few times when first installed packs, but that's all.

[Ableton_David]

Hey, sorry for the frustration, but this forum isn't the best place to report crashes. Please send in all crash reports to crashes[at]ableton[dot]com. Additionally, please get in touch directly with Ableton Support about this, at http://ableton.com/support/contact

It's important to get in touch individually with support - due to individual configurations, it's likely that two users experiencing crashes are facing different reasons.