What is your track Count?

primo · Post by **primo** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:38 am

I'm just interested as to what everone is getting from their DAW interms of track-count before your PC grinds to a halt.

I use Ableton Live (v 5.0.2) I get the feeling it's hogging the harddisk in terms of the way it accesses files. (I've tried 5.0.3 but it crashes my system)

I am getting on average ~20 tracks before my PC grinds to a halt (I am running plenty of plugins with this though!) I have mates using other DAW's with lesser systems getting ~ 60 tracks

Anyone elses with much higher track counts?

My system:
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800MHz CPU 2MB Cache (Socket 775)
Gigabyte GA-8I945G Pro SKT775 Motherboard
1GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM
2x 200GB 7200rpm Quiet SATA Hard Disks with 8MB Cache (Seagate Barracuda)
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
128MB PCI-Express X550 Silent Dual Output Graphics Card

jms5881 · Post by **jms5881** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:20 pm

if your feeling the slowdown in session view its a good idea to use live's drag and drop file system features so you only have whats needed in your session view at any given time. you can't have 100+ tracks sitting in session any more

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:35 pm

90, however 80 are video and lighting MIDI tracks.

Also, my audio tracks are pre-warped to minimize CPU waste. No need for complex warping if you play a track at the same tempo every time.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:07 pm

wow ive just had a test & i managed to get 50 tracks with a few plugins to all play at the same time. Im very surprised about it as normally when im mixing down it can only take sometime up to 10 before things start going slow.

koranek · Post by **koranek** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:24 pm

A lot depends on plugins and effects whether from Live or from third party. Just out of curiosity I ran a test with one scene and lots of tracks - audio only. I was hitting about 50% CPU when I went over 50 tracks. I stopped because it was getting boring dragging all those clips.

On the other hand, if I start adding Reaktor tracks, I'm not even going to get close. If I start putting eq and reverb on each track I'm not going to get close to 50 tracks.

primo · Post by **primo** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:47 am

In Live 4.1.4 I'm getting ~40+ tracks with plugins but the same projects just lock-upin live 5 - nomatter what version (except 5.0.3 where it locks up with anything over 4 tracks

What is your track Count?

How many tracks you getting from live? (with a smattering of plugins per track)

What is your track Count?