How far to you push your CpU when going live?

claudek · Post by **claudek** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:42 pm

Just wondering how far some of you go in the cpu department when going Live? I mean in front of a audience?
I max around 72 %..Is this ok?

Mac Ibook G4
Panther

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:03 pm

what all are you doing in Live to be pushing the cpu that far? for simple playback dj'ing type stuff i never get above 10% cpu -that's on a G4 Powerbook-
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Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 3:47 am

70% is about my threshold too. In fact, since I'm in a two man band, we've been thinking lately about splitting the LIVE load on to 2 PBooks. PBook A does the meat-and-potatoes backing track stuff - scenes etc - and never gets a fright or an unexpected load. Everything Laptop A does is completely predictable. Pbook B gets the live playing/jammimg/showboating/hands-on in the heat of battle stuff. So if either goes down in front of 100s of people, we can also unmute a stereo mix rough representation of what the other PBook was doing. Just thoughts....

BTW still using OS9 here (and Live 2.03 for gigs) cos on a Tibook 500 it allows heaps more clips/FX than OSX. With a carefully stripped-down extension set I can get 20 tracks (no FX) going in LIVE perfectly reliably, it seems.

BBTW Claudek, does your GUI slow down much under heavy CPU load? Which iBook are you using?

cheers
paddy

TiBook 500
1Gb ram
40 Gb int HD (5400 rpm)
RME Cardbus/Multiface
OS9.2.2
Live 2.03 (for gigs, 3.04 for studio)

crt · Post by **crt** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 10:49 pm

claudek wrote:Just wondering how far some of you go in the cpu department when going Live? I mean in front of a audience?
I max around 72 %..Is this ok?

Mac Ibook G4
Panther

Oh, yeah, I am up in the 70's, too. It's okay by me. I get by.

iBook 700/512MB.

mag · Post by **mag** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:50 am

50% max here

six_wax · Post by **six_wax** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 1:13 am

Anything over %65-70 gets really sketchy. [TiBook G4 1Ghz]

also of note, Live seems to "top out" around 24 tracks, even with no effects.

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 1:26 am

70% is the the edge of my comfort zone. anything past that and my refresh rate starts to cripple live pretty bad. i sometimes go into the 80's in the studio, but it starts to super suck.

k

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