Don't you mean 61%
Are you in OS X? How much ram do you have?
This seems impossible, you must own a verrryyyyy special PowerBook!
Live hits a wall on Macs?
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jeffrydada
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No, To all questions. I don't run any other programs that are not nessesary (an old windoze habit - the old ctrl-alt-del till only explorer is running trick) I keep all my studio programs, loops, and effects software on a separate external 7200rpm firewire drive. Most of my effects though come from a Behringer Virtualizer Pro and all Guitars and Basses are effected from here, this outboard effects unit frees up a lot of cpu clock cycles for other stuff. Also as I stated earlier we'll see how well it does after I add 5 vocal tracks using my new Antares pitch correction software. I could see a substantial jump in cpu load. Most of the stuff I do in Live is raw composition, good enough to pitch to Taxi or other A&R guys, but not good enough for production. That's what DP 4 is for. And as soon as I scrape up the cash I'll be adding that little piece of software to my normal run of the mill Power Book too.
MacBook Pro Running 10.5 leopard, 1.5gb ram; Live 6.10; Logic Pro 7; Powercore Compact; MOTU 828 MKII
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bensuthers
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> I don't know, you guys, I must really use Live differently than most. I
> have an Aluminum PB 1.25 ghz machine that hasn't peaked more than
> 16% in cpu usage. My current project has 10 tracks with effects on 4,
> mostly reverbs.
I'm with you. I regularly use 14 tracks out of my 400MHz powerbook.
BUT I don't ever go overboard on effects. maybe 4 eq's, a couple of compressors, 1 instance of reaktor, a delay, a reverb for 60-70% processor. I usually run Ambience as my reverb and max the quality out for rendering.
(I do process and render and re-loop stuff.)
I have no issues with lives performance on the mac. but I was never enamoured by the idea that trackcounts and numbers of compressors was important. it just seemed like a funny way to talk about music.
> have an Aluminum PB 1.25 ghz machine that hasn't peaked more than
> 16% in cpu usage. My current project has 10 tracks with effects on 4,
> mostly reverbs.
I'm with you. I regularly use 14 tracks out of my 400MHz powerbook.
BUT I don't ever go overboard on effects. maybe 4 eq's, a couple of compressors, 1 instance of reaktor, a delay, a reverb for 60-70% processor. I usually run Ambience as my reverb and max the quality out for rendering.
(I do process and render and re-loop stuff.)
I have no issues with lives performance on the mac. but I was never enamoured by the idea that trackcounts and numbers of compressors was important. it just seemed like a funny way to talk about music.
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