How fast do your Live sets load?
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How fast do your Live sets load?
I have these load times on OS X on a 2.66Ghz Core2Duo with 8gb/1tb SSD (about 250MB/s read):
OS X cold start to desktop (auto login): 10 seconds (includes 15 background processes)
Ableton Live 9.2b9 and 9.1.8 program start to full screen: 15 seconds
That's the factory default set. My personal default set with 11 tracks and 1-3 plug-ins on each takes about 50 seconds to load.
Loading a not very complicated set takes well over a minute. Clearly loading a set takes seemingly an unreasonably long time. How fast do your sets load typically?
Please respond with a platform description and comments as well.
OS X cold start to desktop (auto login): 10 seconds (includes 15 background processes)
Ableton Live 9.2b9 and 9.1.8 program start to full screen: 15 seconds
That's the factory default set. My personal default set with 11 tracks and 1-3 plug-ins on each takes about 50 seconds to load.
Loading a not very complicated set takes well over a minute. Clearly loading a set takes seemingly an unreasonably long time. How fast do your sets load typically?
Please respond with a platform description and comments as well.
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Re: How fast does your Live sets load?
Asus G750 laptop
windows 8.1
Intel gen 4 i7 4700HQ 4 core mobile processor
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
16 GB ddr3 ram
M-Audio Project MIX I/O firewire interface
Ableton version 9.1.2
Windows cold boot - about 5 seconds
Ableton factory default load about 10 seconds.
I'd say roughly each additional track, and each vst adds about 1 second of load time each.
So for me a project with 20 tracks and 20 vsts would take about 50 seconds.
However the odd part is the times are not always the same. I could load the same project in 50 seconds, completely quite ableton, and load the same project again and it could take 40 or 60 seconds. And sometimes things hang and it takes an additional 20 seconds for some reason.
Also if there is any M4L stuff in a project I best hope and pray it doesn't crash while loading. Such a cool feature but it's pretty much a total crapshoot. Ableton really needs to make convolution reverb a core device. Seriously.
windows 8.1
Intel gen 4 i7 4700HQ 4 core mobile processor
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
16 GB ddr3 ram
M-Audio Project MIX I/O firewire interface
Ableton version 9.1.2
Windows cold boot - about 5 seconds
Ableton factory default load about 10 seconds.
I'd say roughly each additional track, and each vst adds about 1 second of load time each.
So for me a project with 20 tracks and 20 vsts would take about 50 seconds.
However the odd part is the times are not always the same. I could load the same project in 50 seconds, completely quite ableton, and load the same project again and it could take 40 or 60 seconds. And sometimes things hang and it takes an additional 20 seconds for some reason.
Also if there is any M4L stuff in a project I best hope and pray it doesn't crash while loading. Such a cool feature but it's pretty much a total crapshoot. Ableton really needs to make convolution reverb a core device. Seriously.
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How strange and unfortunate. I really hope when I upgrade my whole PC, which will include a Samsung 500GB EVO SSD, that my load times aren't as poor as this. I was under the impression that with an SSD, data is accessed and retrieved instantly. Well, at least this is what I read everyone reporting with SSDs - "Windows loads in under 20 seconds, Live/Cubase/Pro-Tools etc projects open immediately"
My avg set takes about the same time to load as what you guys have stated, but is to be expected as I am working on a PC with a 1TB 7200rpm HD that's 6 years old and very cranky.
My sets are usually around 8 tracks or so, a few instances of Hive, Bazille and Zebra, Granulator sometimes, Conv Rev Pro x 2, 6 returns with some delays etc, a handful of Satin instances.
live 9.2b9 (no real diff between this and the general release versions btw for me concerning loading)
Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
6 GB RAM
i7 920 @2.6ghz
WD 7200rpm 1TB hard drive
My avg set takes about the same time to load as what you guys have stated, but is to be expected as I am working on a PC with a 1TB 7200rpm HD that's 6 years old and very cranky.
My sets are usually around 8 tracks or so, a few instances of Hive, Bazille and Zebra, Granulator sometimes, Conv Rev Pro x 2, 6 returns with some delays etc, a handful of Satin instances.
live 9.2b9 (no real diff between this and the general release versions btw for me concerning loading)
Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
6 GB RAM
i7 920 @2.6ghz
WD 7200rpm 1TB hard drive
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Re: How fast does your Live sets load?
I'm thinking that it's internal Live structures that could be behind the time it takes. Maybe it's hard to cache a song for reading it into Live and be able to work with it? Because the actual data amount isn't that big. Thanks for your input.tedlogan wrote:
My avg set takes about the same time to load as what you guys have stated, but is to be expected as I am working on a PC with a 1TB 7200rpm HD that's 6 years old and very cranky.
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MacBookPro mid 2014 2.8 GHz 4 cores 16 GB RAM 1TB SSD
My current set (with 8 instances of my max midi generator device, a max midi monitor, drum rack and synth, total of 7 tracks) loads in 7 seconds. I am happy with this. Live only crashes when I am programming Max, which I assume is because I have done something stupid.
My current set (with 8 instances of my max midi generator device, a max midi monitor, drum rack and synth, total of 7 tracks) loads in 7 seconds. I am happy with this. Live only crashes when I am programming Max, which I assume is because I have done something stupid.
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I bought my Thinkpad for $400 off of eBay. Running 32bit with a 7200rpm drive. Windows 7 and Live 9. Sucker is pretty snappy.
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I would be too! This sounds promising for newer machines. Thanks for sharing!Davo wrote:MacBookPro mid 2014 2.8 GHz 4 cores 16 GB RAM 1TB SSD
My current set (with 8 instances of my max midi generator device, a max midi monitor, drum rack and synth, total of 7 tracks) loads in 7 seconds. I am happy with this.
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I really shouldn't mention this until I do scientific studies, but I am convinced that Live sets load MUCH faster on my PC AFTER the first time I run it. Cacheing? My imagination?
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Nope, this doesn't seem so, unless it's your hybrid disk that is doing caching from regular HD to SSD. Just do the tests as scientific as can be and share. This thread isn't about speculation. OK?rasputin wrote:I really shouldn't mention this until I do scientific studies, but I am convinced that Live sets load MUCH faster on my PC AFTER the first time I run it. Cacheing? My imagination?
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I picked more than 2 min, but that is no surprise as my Live set is HUGE, and it only needs to be done once after Live crashes (since I never close Live otherwise )
But what bothers me much more is that with this set, which contains very complicated routings and MANY plug-ins, many other things are extremely sluggish.
Connecting/disconnecting a Midi controller? Make that another 2-3 min.
Adding a new device/track? Yup 1-2 min more.
Changing the interface? Time to make a coffee.
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But what bothers me much more is that with this set, which contains very complicated routings and MANY plug-ins, many other things are extremely sluggish.
Connecting/disconnecting a Midi controller? Make that another 2-3 min.
Adding a new device/track? Yup 1-2 min more.
Changing the interface? Time to make a coffee.
It's like the 90s never ended
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Re: How fast do your Live sets load?
Hmm, I think this lends the idea that internal structures adds some inertia a degree of credibility. Maybe this is an area where Ableton have had to make compromises that are hard to abandon?TomViolenz wrote:what bothers me much more is that with this set, which contains very complicated routings and MANY plug-ins, many other things are extremely sluggish.
Connecting/disconnecting a Midi controller? Make that another 2-3 min.
Adding a new device/track? Yup 1-2 min more.
Changing the interface? Time to make a coffee.
It's like the 90s never ended :x
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Re: How fast do your Live sets load?
Isn't the 9.2 release supposed to provide faster load times?
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But even if?! Some additional overhead I can understand, but my numbers are not hyperbole, they are real! Meaning: How can the calculations to add a track/device or connect/diconnect Midi controllers take THAT long?! I mean this is a quadcore i7 with a SSD and 16gigs of Ram, not a C64 with 64k Ram and a cassete tape drive for programsStromkraft wrote:Hmm, I think this lends the idea that internal structures adds some inertia a degree of credibility. Maybe this is an area where Ableton have had to make compromises that are hard to abandon?TomViolenz wrote:what bothers me much more is that with this set, which contains very complicated routings and MANY plug-ins, many other things are extremely sluggish.
Connecting/disconnecting a Midi controller? Make that another 2-3 min.
Adding a new device/track? Yup 1-2 min more.
Changing the interface? Time to make a coffee.
It's like the 90s never ended
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Re: How fast do your Live sets load?
I've experienced nothing like the load times of devices, pretty fast overall. Projects take about a minute but i'm running about 30-40 tracks with plugins like Monark and synth squad, lots of fx and 7 sends.
Slowest thing is the rendering, takes a while, about 5-10 minutes. I'm long overdue an SSD but specs are AMD FX8320 at 4.5ghz, 8GB 1600 DDR Ram, Seagate 7200rpm SATA drive.
Samples, projects and the user library are all kept on seperate partitions.
Slowest thing is the rendering, takes a while, about 5-10 minutes. I'm long overdue an SSD but specs are AMD FX8320 at 4.5ghz, 8GB 1600 DDR Ram, Seagate 7200rpm SATA drive.
Samples, projects and the user library are all kept on seperate partitions.
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Re: How fast do your Live sets load?
Considering what Live can calculate in real time it's something of a mystery. But as Live up til recently they supported multiple versions of two really old OSes as well as new with two versions of Live (8 and 9) we could suspect there are probably some old coding debts Ableton must pay to be able to pull that off. Even 2 years ago it was really rare for anyone to support OS X 10.5 and to some extent even Windows XP. When Ableton abandoned these they hopefully bought themselves some freedom from old structures and libraries. Hopefully future versions of Live will show if this can make a difference or not.TomViolenz wrote: But even if?! Some additional overhead I can understand, but my numbers are not hyperbole, they are real! Meaning: How can the calculations to add a track/device or connect/diconnect Midi controllers take THAT long?! I mean this is a quadcore i7 with a SSD and 16gigs of Ram, not a C64 with 64k Ram and a cassete tape drive for programs :x
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