Whats An Average cpu load for your projects.

The Scientist · Post by **The Scientist** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:05 pm

i just Live 5 this Weekemd, and i love it. i just wanted to know on the average what your cpu load is. for the few projects I've worked on this weekend it was running about 10%-15%. But I'm also running 5.0, not the update. Its been runnin fine so far. Do you guys think the new 5.02 is neccesary? and is it more stable than the initial release (5.0)? sorry for all the questions.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:40 pm

static its about 30% but when i play i regulalry hit 100+ and get a big phat D. but thats a couple of instances of reaktor to blame.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:44 pm

used to be around 30 percent... and then I got Reaktor, now it's at 40-60... and then I add the mastering chain, which more or less maxes out the cpu

the ar · Post by **the ar** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:45 pm

Usually around 25/35%.
Jumps up to about 50 if I 'master' in Live, but I usually use my outboard studio gear for that.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:46 pm

I usually stay around 60-70% but I use mostly soft synths. When it gets higher than that, I render stuff so I can work more quickly.

If I want to play my stuff out, I render most of the clips and disable their track's plugins to get it below 50% for better stability and enough CPU room to play a softsynth Live.

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:22 pm

too often aroung 80% - even after bouncing synths etc. I am considering going back to cubase, seriously, just so I can have more CPU overhead!!

I love Live, when I'm starting a tune... but too often, not even half way through writing a track I come up against high CPU, slugishness, have to put my latency right up so I can't play anything in properly .. kills inspiration!!

I'm running a 1.7Ghz Dothan P4M, 1Gb RAM.

The Scientist · Post by **The Scientist** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:16 pm

Dam thats pretty high. I had a set yesterday running Reason 2.5, and Acid Pro 5, with a decent size track count, effects loaded, and was only pushing about 17% with all those programs running. I'm running on a dell 9100 laptop 3.2ghz, 1 gig ram, 60 7200rpm hd.

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:17 pm

all the way untill it pops

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:32 pm

70-90, until I bounce everything down row by row (I don't like the way the freeze is implemented, just a pet-peeve). I put each instrument in its own track, so having multiple instances of trash and other fx plugins running tends to get a bit costly...

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:49 pm

90%'s ....

Too bad that the same thing in CubaseSX is a 35%, but Live is more fun

-tim

purefunk · Post by **purefunk** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:39 pm

Rewired with Reason...

Til it can't handle any more, then I have to strip it down.

Mac Powerbook G4, 1Ghz, 2GB

ManxRed · Post by **ManxRed** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:55 pm

Whoa! Thought I was pushing it at 50-odd% but I'm just a novice!

Nurse!! More softsynths!!!

marky · Post by **marky** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:34 pm

My projects easily creep up to 60 - 70% with an instance of Battery 2.0, some MIDI and audio tracks with effects and a few external plugs (Hydratone, Equim, Neodynium).

So much so that I have changed my usage of Live --- I use it only for the initial composition stage. When I get a couple of minutes of the track laid out, I transfer everything to Logic Pro and rewire any Simpler/Impulse/Audio tracks into Live.

This works great for me, but pained me to do it as I like Live's workflow so much. But they really, really need to put some dual processor optimizations in there.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:50 pm

I'm not sure why there are so many CPU issues with Live. Most of my problems disappeared when I turned Hyperthreading off. I suspect that HT for PCs, and Mac issues cause many of the CPU issues. I recently did some testing and found that for the same amount of tracks with the same plugs and same settings, Live wasn't too far off from SX or Sonar, with Sonar just a bit more efficient. Just my own observations...I'm sure everyone has different findings, but so far, Live 5.02 is wonderful.

bland_handl · Post by **bland_handl** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:50 am

Nebulae,

Can you tell us any more about Hyperthreading and how to switch it off?
And does switching it off affect use with other audio apps?
(I'm running Live on a Powerbook w. OS Tiger)

Bland