Excesive CPU and crashing

mejaques · Post by **mejaques** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:12 am

I am using live 7.01. System is AMD 64 dual core 3.2 running XP. I have two drum tracks set up with an ableton comprssor on each channel, ableton auto filter and EQ 8 on each channel. This is then routed to a drum track with another ableton compressor and bbe sonic maximizer.

When playing CPU goes as high as 35% plays for a while and then crashes. This is really annoying and any help would be apprecaited.

Thanks.

kipling · Post by **kipling** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:34 am

have you tried the most recent 7.0.2 beta listed in one of the first messages in the bugs and problems forum? with the 7.0.2 betas, ableton is systematically trying the fix major problems (i assume, as it seems that way in most of their messages).

i'm sure you have tried raising the latency in your audio preferences already.

mejaques · Post by **mejaques** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:18 am

Thanks for your help - I forgot to mention i was using the sound card from my berhinger BCD2000 - I haven't adjusted the latency!

i'm fairly new to ableton but not to music production so i would apprecaite if anyone can help with best settings ie audio buffer size, plugin buffer, latencey etc.

Thanks in advance of any replies.

kipling · Post by **kipling** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:39 am

under the "help" pulldown menu, there is "lessons in live"
if you scroll down the lessons, at the bottom is "Audio I-O" and "Midi Controllers." The Audio I-O will walk you through adjusting your settings very handily.

Post by **Alex** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:18 pm

mejaques,

as kipling already mentioned, it would be helpful if you can give the latest 7.0.2 beta a try to see if that problem still exists there.
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83488

Furthermore you could us send this particular Live set so that we can try to reproduce it here.

Regards,
/Alex

mejaques · Post by **mejaques** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:21 pm

Guys,

Thanks very much for your help - I will try the beta version and also view the lesson. I will post again once i know more.

Thanks once again.

mejaques · Post by **mejaques** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:33 pm

hi all,

Still need more help if possible. Took the leson and set up as instructed and also tried the beta version. Still getting excesive cpu with 3 audi tracks bussed to 1 with 3 vst on that channel CPU is at 50% and starts glithing and sometimes crashes and shuts my pc down.

Please help anyone.

Post by **Alex** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:40 pm

mejaques,

if you got crashes with a Live beta version, a so called Bug Reporting package should be created when starting the beta the next time. Please send these bug reporting packages to [email protected].

Regards,
/Alex

ambien · Post by **ambien** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:31 am

I just got a weird performance experience.

I built a very simple live set, one track playing a 3-voice analog line. Sound was stuttering while performance ran up to 150%, using Asio4All or MME/DirectX, both with full buffer on a T7500 with 2gig ram. I rebooted and still got the stuttering, tested 7.0.1 as well as 7.0.2b6.

Nice I thought, here I have a reproducable performance problem. I just wanted to send the file to the Abletons, writing an email complaining about the performance. I started Reason 4.0.1 just to confirm, that I can run a lot of voices there without any problems.

So I loaded a Reason set and played it. Suddenly... My live set was playing. That is no wonder because of rewire. BUT! It was playing with 15% and without stuttering. I closed reason. Live still playing fine. I rebooted. Live still playing fine.

So... Is the performance thing a rewire issue? Weird...

tb303live · Post by **tb303live** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:18 pm

I have experienced several crashes since upgrading to 7.0.1 as well.

Computer is a Dell XPS DXP051, Pentium(R) D 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM. M-Audio FTP USB soundcard. Windows XP SP2.

The Ableton bootup times vary wildly from 30 seconds one time to upwards of 2-3 minutes the next. Often Ableton will freeze if I am tweaking several parameters or while loading a VST/Plugin. Once the program freezes I have to manually force shut down but then the live.exe remains in my task manager screen for 10-15 minutes after the program has been closed. ???

This just occured and I ended up having to do a hard shutdown of the computer b/c it would not even shutdown properly.

It is as if Live is caught in an infinite loop of some sort and cannot properly shut itself down... while system resources are being eaten up like candy.

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