how many audio tracks with Live 5 on quad G5?

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Mohamed
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how many audio tracks with Live 5 on quad G5?

Post by Mohamed » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:14 pm

Im hanging around here reading all the shit and cant find any info on track count. How many tracks of audio can you get with Live 5 I only have the demo which is struggling with eighteen unwarped audio tracks. Is this a demo limitation or something? I have a Quad G5 + external Glyph 80gig scsi drives so were talking real low track count here with the setup I have.

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Re: how many audio tracks with Live 5 on quad G5?

Post by sweetjesus » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:20 pm

Mohamed wrote:Im hanging around here reading all the shit and cant find any info on track count. How many tracks of audio can you get with Live 5 I only have the demo which is struggling with eighteen unwarped audio tracks. Is this a demo limitation or something? I have a Quad G5 + external Glyph 80gig scsi drives so were talking real low track count here with the setup I have.
i was having some technical issues on my laptop (pc) so i tried the set out on a G5 imac.. it had .. say 40 tracks in there on 3 channels and the thing would spew...

its gonna get better with Live6 buddy... hang in there.

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Post by mikHATz » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:50 pm

There is not demo limitation as far as track count or cpu usage as far as i know. Live 5 still dosnt support multi-core or multi-processor systems. They say Live 6 will. heres the story:
http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=n ... ac_support

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Post by hambone1 » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:56 pm

I can play 30+ warped 16-bit 44.1kHz stereo tracks on a G5 2 x 2Ghz, 10,000RPM SATA drive.

I would think you could get more than that on your system, although there is no multi-core or multi-processor system at present. There is no demo limitation as far as I know.

Edit: I just dropped in 60 unwarped tracks, and it's happily playing with the CPU meter at 57%.

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